Randylover
Member Since: 31 Jan 2011
Location: Staffordshire
Posts: 1172
  
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Afternoon peeps
My top tailgate is playing up
Once you open it if you try to open it again it won’t open but if left for a while it will again open etc and so on
It isn’t the cable I have checked and that’s fine
It’s like a loss of power to the actuator when I took it out and operated it, it makes all the correct noises but as you operate it it draws the actuator less and less as if the battery is going flat
Is there a relay somewhere associated with it that could be faulty, it’s becoming a pain and swmbo getting fed up with it
Cheers
Andy 05 TDV6,"S" in all colourcoded Zermatt silver,7 seats winter pack HK 6cd stereo,Dual climate,Xenons,
Mods:
Re-Con Engine,De-Tango,Reverse camera,Fog/DRl lights,Aux Battery, perm Aux socket in boot,LED Volt meters in roof panel,Built in tom tom, Strobes fitted in grille, Aux switches for trailer lights fitted in roof panel,Roof Rails,Grille conversion
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 14th Apr 2018 5:06 pm |
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Oswiperus
D3 Decade
Member Since: 02 Apr 2010
Location: Chelmsford, Essex
Posts: 1590
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When my tailgate behaved in a similar fashion it was the actuator at fault, as you say, it would work once only. Replaced actuator and no more issues. Stu
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| 14th Apr 2018 5:36 pm |
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bimblephish
Member Since: 21 Jul 2016
Location: Wiltshire
Posts: 272
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I had a similar symptom with mine and it was the switch, there is an aluminium padel behind the rubber which actuates the micro switch. This had become corroded and was not releasing the switch properly. I took it out and cleaned it up and it’s been fine since
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| 14th Apr 2018 7:16 pm |
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TC179
Member Since: 19 Aug 2014
Location: uk
Posts: 145
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Switch cleaner spray on the micro switch inside the top tailgate handle worked for me although not a permanent fix as I’ve had to do it a couple of times in last few months. Be careful removing the switch assembly from the top handlle, very easy to break the little plastic retaining lugs. 
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| 14th Apr 2018 7:44 pm |
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JMack
Member Since: 02 Aug 2014
Location: Edinburgh
Posts: 1517
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Oswiperus wrote:When my tailgate behaved in a similar fashion it was the actuator at fault, as you say, it would work once only. Replaced actuator and no more issues.
I had the same issue and resolution.
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| 15th Apr 2018 2:43 pm |
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