Dispatch slide doors making noise when driving

[Rey man]

I have a 2001 1.9 dispatch and when driving on the motorway, the slide side doors let in air ass if they are open, but they are not! Please does anybody have any tips to stop this?

Thanks

[daviemck2006]

I've driven quite a few of these between citroen dispatch, fiat scudo and peugeot experts as taxis and every one has sounded as if a window is open a crack, or the side doors are not shut. Funnily enough the people carrier ones, synergie, ulysse and 806 don't do it. Must be to do with the extra few inches of the van version. I think you will have to put up with it. Sorry I cant be more helpful.

[Sean602]

yup they all do that Sir!

you can jiggle the "finger" that locates the top of the door and check that the plastic socket is in the B pillar and still whole. Mines bad when the edge of the finger catches the rubber seal and allows the wind in

[Richard_C]

My synergie developed noisy creaky leaky doors but I did manage to improve matters a lot. You need the right sized torx driver on a small ratchet. As other have said the finger is adjustable as are the mounting blocks on the b and c pillars. Slacken off bolts, tap to move, re tighten. I just kept fiddling about until it improved. Kept the tool in the door pocket and adjusted it before most journeys when I had the time. If I recall correctly some of it is counter intuitive, you would think that moving everything "inwards" would tighten the door onto its seals, but I think I moved the c pillar one outwards which meant the leading edge of the door moved inwards a bit. All I really remember is lots of attempts and one day it just got better.

[Rey man]

thanks for the help!!!

[Gibbo2286]

If any of you need the carriage for the sliding door I have a new one sitting in my shed. Could save you a pile of money off the dealer price.

This one:

[Wookey]

I have this problem quite badly now. It's been slowly getting worse over the years. I have tried adjusting the fingers - that worked for a few years, but now there doesn't seem to be enough adjustment to make it seal properly any more. It feels like slop has been slowly accumulating in the mechanism, but it's really not at all obvious exactly where. There is a pivot as well as the wheel in the track on the top runner. If you pull in on the top runner then the door moves in a couple of mm onto the seal and the noise stops/the water stays outside. You can see that the plastic finger is doing its job because it's heavily worn where it has been pushing the door into places on one side. But a new one doesn't fix it. As I say, I think the top pivot is allowing more travel than it used to. I wonder if there is any solution short of buying a whole new track? I wonder if Gibbo still has one spare? Maybe new door seal rubbers would do it, or mounting the track on a couple of washers?