Bongo Fury

I have a 2 litre petrol bongo. The blinds are manual - not the electric ones. One of them has been faulty since I bought the bongo and after nearly 2 years of holding it shut with a spring clip, I thought I'd try and fix it.

Having inspected it and compared with the other (working) blinds it appears they have a bar sewn in to the bottom of the blind and that bar has a plastic lug sticking out of each end. One of the two lugs is broken. There are also two sliding plastic blocks - one in each of the two tracks at the two vertical edges of the window - that run up and down the track and cause the blind to lock at various heights - like a sort of ratchet system in the tracks.

Both of the plastic blocks are missing.

Does anyone know where I can get replacement blocks and the bar from (and/or what the proper names for these components are)?

Thanks.

Liam.

PS. How hard and expensive would it be to upgrade to electric blinds?

pikey wrote:I have a 2 litre petrol bongo. The blinds are manual - not the electric ones. One of them has been faulty since I bought the bongo and after nearly 2 years of holding it shut with a spring clip, I thought I'd try and fix it.

Having inspected it and compared with the other (working) blinds it appears they have a bar sewn in to the bottom of the blind and that bar has a plastic lug sticking out of each end. One of the two lugs is broken. There are also two sliding plastic blocks - one in each of the two tracks at the two vertical edges of the window - that run up and down the track and cause the blind to lock at various heights - like a sort of ratchet system in the tracks.

Both of the plastic blocks are missing.

Does anyone know where I can get replacement blocks and the bar from (and/or what the proper names for these components are)?

Thanks.

Liam.

PS. How hard and expensive would it be to upgrade to electric blinds?

I have the same problem! Can you post back with your success (or otherwise...)

Our blinds are working but are old and worn (we've just purchased a 98 newly imported Bongo 2.5 diesel) and would like to replace the blinds and back curtains but so far I'm not having any luck on where to find them. They are manual, but would be interested in any answers on the converting to electric as well (although, that seems like it would cost more than it would be worth but worth looking at in case it isn't )

Thanks, Jacki