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Rear blind

Post by Biba » Mon May 02, 2011 7:13 pm

Can any one help the rear driver blind has stopped working it is aways down - all the restwork. Any ideas how to fix it?
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Re: Rear blind

Post by jaylee » Mon May 02, 2011 8:12 pm

A couple of possibility's come to mind... Either something is jamming the track, stopping it moving up? Or a tricky rear corresponding blind switch..? Can the blind be moved by hand? Where are you roughly based??
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Re: Rear blind

Post by haydn callow » Mon May 02, 2011 8:18 pm

If it's just the electrics that have failed you can just push it up...
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Re: Rear blind

Post by Biba » Wed May 04, 2011 11:11 pm

Blind can be pushed up - it's just a bit of a pest to do and would like to fix if we can. We are in Aberdeen.
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Re: Rear blind

Post by jaylee » Wed May 04, 2011 11:46 pm

First simple test... If you can remove a switch from the passenger side & replace the corresponding switch with the faulty rear blind on the drivers side, we can rule that either out or in..?? :wink:

Just remove the panel pocket with the one screw, put yer hand up & unclip the switch from behind.... See link; par 68-525A http://www.lushprojects.com/bongopartsm ... mgno=.html

If i remember right, if the front-most switch in the rear is removed from the back it breaks the whole circuit so the whole side wont work from the front...! (Or the switch at the rear.) :-k
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Re: Rear blind

Post by Diplomat » Thu May 05, 2011 9:48 am

Could be worse, at least it's the driver's side.

I like to control the passenger side blinds from the front but the offside ones can stay down for ever. They don't make a 'blind' bit of difference to my ability to see out (or do I mean 'owt').

The only blind I really want to raise is the one in the sliding door. Rear passengers are only accepted on sufferance and they can either look out through the windscreen or work the blinds manually, provided that they pull them down before leaving.

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Re: Rear blind

Post by jaylee » Thu May 05, 2011 10:39 am

Hence this pimp... http://s186.photobucket.com/albums/x70/ ... eo0006.mp4

They could be rigged to close down on locking??!!
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