MK5 Golf GTI
All Things Mk5 => How to Guides / Troubleshooting => Topic started by: fliprio on September 03, 2017, 01:12:28 pm
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Afternoon all, my Mk5 has a slight niggle that once shutting the doors, the last one is very hard to shut due to the internal cabin pressure, drop the window a mm and it shuts fine but other than that you have to slam the last door - which is usually the wife's and it drives her mad :-)
Is there an internal vent on these things to stop this? does everyone else have the same problem?
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Afternoon all, my Mk5 has a slight niggle that once shutting the doors, the last one is very hard to shut due to the internal cabin pressure, drop the window a mm and it shuts fine but other than that you have to slam the last door - which is usually the wife's and it drives her mad :-)
Is there an internal vent on these things to stop this? does everyone else have the same problem?
Anyone else had this issue?
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You can move the striker out a tiny bit on the b pillar, that will make it slightly easier to close. And yes there are vents for the cabin pressure which are in the rear panel behind the bumper x2
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Yep standard Golf. They've always been like that. As above you can move the latch pins out a bit, but I don't like the resultant unsightly shut line gaps.
Just wait for the missus to close her door before shutting yours :happy2:
The rear vents don't help with this issue. I think they are just stale air vents and you can hear them chuntering away in heavy side winds. I think they open up when the car is on the move to evacuate the burps and farts.