Tailgate Or Barn Doors

Barn doors these are hinged on the side of the van and rotate about a vertical point.

Tailgate or barn doors.

The conversion is in itself simple with the parts being bolted on and falls in to three elements having the parts present having the tools available and having the electrical system altered. With a tailgate up if it were raining i could stand underneath it to put my walking boots and coat on or take them off without getting soaked. The final advantage of tailgates albeit a small one is aesthetics. We ve had one with barn doors and now have one with a tailgate.

Arguments for barn doors. If you reverse up to wall just pulll forward to get. Barn doors are a standard feature for medium and large panel vans tailgates are more widely used on car derived vans kombis and minibuses but can often be chosen as a no cost. The most obvious advantage of barn doors is that they re a lot easier and quicker to open and shut.

Get the full story here. The most frequent reason to buy a campervan with a tailgate is that it offers one big advantage over barn doors a tailgate provides shelter. Tailgates these are hinged on the top and rotate about a horizontal point. Parking situations where the tailgate is a problem are few and far between.

This is a guide to replacing the barn doors on your t6 with a tailgate.