the C5 design is very simple and works very well, its just that there is a little tab on the inside of the car, just below where the trap sits and this is attached to a latch, so when the trap is down, it pushed down on the latch, and it grabs the outside threshold (yellow sliding thing) When its a low level stop, the latch isn't pushed down so it lets the outside thing slide with the door.
But the problem is the little plastic thing that is on the bottom of the trap and the little lever on the wall which passes through the wall to the outside to hold the trap don't really make good contact. There is a very small surface area that the spacer actually hits on the wall thing, and someitmes, if the trap is out of adjustment, it misses the whole thing and the "outside slider thing" goes with the door when opening for a high level. The little thing on the wall should be slightly bigger, adn this problem would be solved quite easily.
There are times when the slider thing doesn't latch but slides over as if it did. If you were to step on it, it would slide (because its not latched) ive almost slipped a couple of times because of it.....but for the most part, they work pretty good
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