Manual Blind not staying down

[lmulhall]

The rear blind has stopped holding itself down on the lowest setting. It stays for a second then pops up. Is there any way to strengthen / tighten the spring?

Anyone any ideas?

Many thanks,
Luke

[dandywarhol]

When I first bought my Bongo I went around lubricating and spraying everything in sight, including the manual blind runners - bad mistake - they pinged up at every occasion - always seemed to happen when you were getting changed in the morning and the slightest movement would open it.....anyway, I sprayed electrical contact cleaner onto the runners and the newly applied silicon spray was easily removed and been fine since.

[nfn]

Two of the manual blinds on mine pop up when driving on bumpy roads. There's a plastic part under the trim around the window that the bar on the blind clips under to stay down. I think this part gets worn with use. One option is to use a little velcro on the blind. The other half of the velcro can go on the lever for opening the window (the window itself is too far away from the blind). A tidier option (that I have not yet tried) may be to reshape the end of the part that the blind's rod clips under when it's down. To reshape using a file would mean removing the plastic trim around the window to access the blind-holder-downer-thingy. This looks like a pain to do. I am wondering whether applying a hard-setting glue instead of reshaping using a file would work -- and would eliminate the need to remove the trim.