HaxbyPete
Standard Member
We were out in the countryside on the sunny Sunday of last weekend, enjoying coffee and cake at one of our regular stops for such delights. I had opened the tailgate by the release button and taken out our folding chairs to place on the grass. Can't remember whether I used the button on the tailgate or the button of my remote to close it but I did so and walked away while it closed.
Half an hour later, coffee and cake having been enjoyed, I went to the back of the car to find that the tailgate was still open in the half-way position ! I zapped it wuth the remote - but no reaction. I pressed the button on the talgate, still no reaction. I locked the car from the remote, and pressed the tailgate button, still no joy. I got into the car, started the car up, pressed the internal tailgate button on the centre console - still not a murmur of either opening or closing the tailgate.
I could hear a relay clicking each time but no movement on the tailgate itself from the half open position. It was bloody stuck !
So I'm thinking "oh hell, what now, am I going to have to drive back to the dealership in York with the tailgate half open - and it's Sunday so there will be no service staff there anyway ?"
If all else fail, I say, use brute force ! So I placed my hand gently but firmly on the corner of the tailgate and pressed downwards against the pressure of the gas struts until the door was closed - and it locked. Press the remote to open it - and it did. Press again to close it and it did ! Jobs a good 'un - got on with the rest of my day !
Information offered just in case it should hppen to you !
Otherwise a wonderful car - just 10 days in and very happy with it. Thank God I have an electric car - with the queues at the petrol pumps - even if they have petrol to sell - I feel rather smug ! At least I can drive 32 miles every day !
Half an hour later, coffee and cake having been enjoyed, I went to the back of the car to find that the tailgate was still open in the half-way position ! I zapped it wuth the remote - but no reaction. I pressed the button on the talgate, still no reaction. I locked the car from the remote, and pressed the tailgate button, still no joy. I got into the car, started the car up, pressed the internal tailgate button on the centre console - still not a murmur of either opening or closing the tailgate.
I could hear a relay clicking each time but no movement on the tailgate itself from the half open position. It was bloody stuck !
So I'm thinking "oh hell, what now, am I going to have to drive back to the dealership in York with the tailgate half open - and it's Sunday so there will be no service staff there anyway ?"
If all else fail, I say, use brute force ! So I placed my hand gently but firmly on the corner of the tailgate and pressed downwards against the pressure of the gas struts until the door was closed - and it locked. Press the remote to open it - and it did. Press again to close it and it did ! Jobs a good 'un - got on with the rest of my day !
Information offered just in case it should hppen to you !
Otherwise a wonderful car - just 10 days in and very happy with it. Thank God I have an electric car - with the queues at the petrol pumps - even if they have petrol to sell - I feel rather smug ! At least I can drive 32 miles every day !
