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Hi All,
On our "new" ie replaced under warranty habitation door the interior operating handle has just failed whilst away here in sunny Grange upon Sands
The door handle casting has failed, snapping adjacent to the hinge pin on the lower operating lever
The upper lever ie handle is 140mm from pivot to end the lower ie operating lever is 20 mm pivot to end a ratio of 7 to 1!!!
It is impossible to lift the lock operating rod manually by hand giving some idea of the force required to operate the lock so not a good design for monkey metal castings
Am I alone out there with this failure or are there others?
Regards Ray
Am I alone out there with this failure or are there others?
Regards Ray
No Ray...you are not alone. Ours snapped too while we were in Greece at Easter last year. Like yours the door had already been replaced under warranty. We had the lock sorted when we got back and registered the fact that we thought it would do the same thing again as the casting was not up to the job in our opinion. So far- touch wood- it has held up but it is beginning to stiffen up- which is what it did before before it snapped.
We have all the photos we submitted to the various dealers, makers etc showing the poor casting and material used. I can dig them out and PM if you like ?
Hi Grizzly,
Thanks for the info and pics,
I will try Swift tomorrow see if I can get a new handle - using string on the actual lock operating rod - cant budge the rod the handle works on
Regards Ray
I think that the mechanism is too stiff and I now get Marquis to lubricate it whenever it goes in for service. After lubrication it is less stiff but does seem to be stiffening up again and may need doing more than once a year.
just purchased a preloved bessacar and was told on handover that the type of handles had broken frequently, & to press the door in to relieve the pressure and not force it tugging, making opening the door into a two handed operation, your posts make me realise why
It had the hab door replaced in April 2009 and in May 2009 I wrote that the new door latch was getting very stiff making it difficult to open the door from inside.
In May 2010 the latch snapped off internally while we were in Greece.
This is the photo we took soon after the door itself was replaced in 2009. There were many posts on MHF around that time as a lot of us had the new door fitted.
It is a fault with the door rather than the van; the metal casting from which the door opening mechanism is made is poor and not, we think, up to the job.
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