Bonding stainless steel to plastic

[Jeffrey Lebowski]

Or take a piece of thin steel (thick enough that it won't easily bend) and bolt it on the inside of the door where the curve is with some small nuts/bolts. That might suck the plastic up to it and straighten it out. Or, can you replace the actual rotating latch part with a longer piece of plastic? Something that will catch a little more? Hard to tell if there's room for either from the photos.

Actual rotating part looks simple, but is pretty complicated. There is a spring detente with cogs to hold it in place at 3, 6, 9, 12 o’clock.

[brutal]

Actual rotating part looks simple, but is pretty complicated. There is a spring detente with cogs to hold it in place at 3, 6, 9, 12 o’clock.

Easy to replace that with an RV barrel lock.

[Jeffrey Lebowski]

Easy to replace that with an RV barrel lock.

I'm not sure if it'd have the reach....

[Jeffrey Lebowski]

Anyway, here's the follow-up on this. It...sort of worked. At one point in 20 hours it popped open on a decently hard brake. It is invisible, though.

I did ask the dealer about it. Getting a full replacement is easy, but he agrees that these aren't ideal and if it went foul inside of a year, well....
I'll keep my eye out for the perfect material to lengthen the latch, I may try. Our camping cutting boards may be just the ticket.