What type of grease for sliding door?

[sternal]

As the title says ?

Many thanks in advance

[gil90]

Just a normal EP2, or any grease you have to hand really. Its not high revs or load bearing

[ghost123uk]

I use Vaseline type stuff. I find you inevitably manage to get it on your hands etc when you sit in the doorway when camping etc and Vasaline makes less mess on you and your clothes.

I also found that to clean the tracks out before re-greasing, an old towel (or fluffy type T towel) and lots of White Spirit gets all the caked on grease and muck out very well, then just chuck the towel in the bin.

[cleagarr]

I also found that to clean the tracks out before re-greasing, an old towel (or fluffy type T towel) and lots of White Spirit gets all the caked on grease and muck out very well, then just chuck the towel in the bin.

Echo this... I didn't clean mine properly, greased it and now it feels like it is running over gravel every time I shut it!

[CovKid]

Anything door related and its best (if you can) to use white grease used in the food business. Reason being is that lots of folk do NOT take kindly to having clothes ruined if they should come into contact with greasy door parts. I'm fairly sure you can get it in small tubes. Many car manufacturers use it as standard now. It'll still leave grease marks but not such dirty marks as regular grease and it washes out easier. Never use CV grease - that stuff is the dirtiest of the lot.

For the sliding door catch (rear one) I just use oil as in cold weather grease seems to slow the catch so much it doesn't have time to bite and you end up with a situation where you're constantly slamming it. Use oil and the problem seems to go away. Wash parts through with white spirit or similar to get out any grit.