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EIG
Member Since: 12 Feb 2009
Location: Enniskillen
Posts: 329
  
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Can anyone help!!
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 22nd Jul 2009 2:20 am |
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promitheus
Member Since: 04 Jul 2009
Location: Afidnes, Greece
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If the latch needs replacement, how can you access it? Is it true that you either have to break the inner plastic  or have lilliputian hands?
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| 22nd Jul 2009 8:36 am |
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JimboD3
Member Since: 23 Mar 2009
Location: Hertfordshire
Posts: 348
 
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The emergency override process for the knacked tailgate switch is:
Press and hold both lock and unlock buttons on the dash for 3 seconds.........the top tailgate will pop open onto the first latch, get someone else to 'try' and open the tailgate at the sametime you press the dash buttons and the tailgate will open - chances are the switch mech is crudded up with corrosion. It can be cleaned up with a small screwdriver/scraper; lubed up, and normal service restored.
You can also programme the 'Landrover' button on the key fob to open the top tailgate........but I've not managed to do it yet  Jim
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| 22nd Jul 2009 4:01 pm |
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promitheus
Member Since: 04 Jul 2009
Location: Afidnes, Greece
Posts: 570
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So JimboD3, is there an emergency procedure to open the lower tailgate if it does not open otherwise?
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| 22nd Jul 2009 7:52 pm |
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EIG
Member Since: 12 Feb 2009
Location: Enniskillen
Posts: 329
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Thanks Jim, the top tailgate does not open to the first latch when I try the emergency proceedure - do you know how to remove the trim from the inside of the top tailgate which will probably allow me to manually release it.
Jim
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| 22nd Jul 2009 11:56 pm |
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catweasel
Member Since: 05 May 2006
Location: Bundaleer
Posts: 4805
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JimboD3 wrote:but I've not managed to do it yet
hold the third button on the fob and open the tailgate whilst it is depressed and it should be programmed.
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| 23rd Jul 2009 2:23 pm |
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stapldm
Member Since: 11 Sep 2006
Location: Swine Town
Posts: 2330
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EIG wrote:do you know how to remove the trim from the inside of the top tailgate which will probably allow me to manually release it
 Do NOT remove any trim from the upper tailgate if you want to manually undo it! Both the upper and lower motorised latches are in the lower half; only the upper tailgate opening switch is located in the handle on the upper half. Dr. Ian Malcolm:
"Yeah, but your scientists were so preoccupied with whether or not they could, they didn't stop to think if they should."
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| 23rd Jul 2009 3:03 pm |
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CFB
Member Since: 02 Dec 2005
Location: Bradford, West Yorkshire
Posts: 6100
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Mine packed up the other day, not the most technical fix but I gave the handle containing the switch a few heavy thumps with the back of my fist 
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| 23rd Jul 2009 4:43 pm |
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EIG
Member Since: 12 Feb 2009
Location: Enniskillen
Posts: 329
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Thanks Stapldm - have you any advice on removal of the lower panel.
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| 23rd Jul 2009 7:55 pm |
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stapldm
Member Since: 11 Sep 2006
Location: Swine Town
Posts: 2330
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EIG, thankfully haven't yet had to do it myself, but a quick search turned up this :
http://www.disco3.co.uk/forum/post398013.html#398013
and as a cross reference so you know what's where:
http://www.disco3.co.uk/forum/post409618.html#409618
The second to last picture shows the second skin you'll need to get under to reach the mechanism. I haven't managed to find a photo of that; sorry!
Edit: I thought there was a photo guide to fixing this, but I have a fever and the google is no longer strong with me  Dr. Ian Malcolm:
"Yeah, but your scientists were so preoccupied with whether or not they could, they didn't stop to think if they should."
Transgenic tomato anyone?
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| 23rd Jul 2009 9:00 pm |
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