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My car is doing my nut in!
Posted: Fri Oct 23, 2015 9:26 am
by AudiPartner
Since the car came back from Audi (coincidence) the tailgate hasn't opened fully, and as such I keep banging my head!!
Has anyone had this? Is it just worn/tired struts? It's not all the time but more often than not.
Re: My car is doing my nut in!
Posted: Fri Oct 23, 2015 11:22 am
by MNK
Could just be cos it's cold now...
Re: My car is doing my nut in!
Posted: Fri Oct 23, 2015 12:03 pm
by Ungjaevel
Mnk : cold... Why would that cause an issue?
Re: My car is doing my nut in!
Posted: Fri Oct 23, 2015 1:04 pm
by MNK
actually ignore that... i'm guessing we're talking about an estate here not saloon. not sure how the estate boot works.
on the saloon the boot is opened by gas struts, so the pressure in them will vary with temperature. in the winter my boot hardly opens when i unlock it... in the summer it opens fully without me touching it.
Re: My car is doing my nut in!
Posted: Fri Oct 23, 2015 2:12 pm
by F15HAR
Have you tried the height reset as per the manual? I think it was basically lift/push to the correct height and depress the button on the tailgate for 5 seconds or so and that stores the new height...
Re: My car is doing my nut in!
Posted: Fri Oct 23, 2015 4:05 pm
by AudiPartner
F15har wrote:Have you tried the height reset as per the manual? I think it was basically lift/push to the correct height and depress the button on the tailgate for 5 seconds or so and that stores the new height...
nice one, will look it up and give it a try!
Re: My car is doing my nut in!
Posted: Sun Nov 01, 2015 8:08 pm
by leet
AudiPartner wrote:F15har wrote:Have you tried the height reset as per the manual? I think it was basically lift/push to the correct height and depress the button on the tailgate for 5 seconds or so and that stores the new height...
nice one, will look it up and give it a try!
Did this work?
Re: My car is doing my nut in!
Posted: Thu Nov 05, 2015 2:45 pm
by AudiPartner
leet wrote:AudiPartner wrote:F15har wrote:Have you tried the height reset as per the manual? I think it was basically lift/push to the correct height and depress the button on the tailgate for 5 seconds or so and that stores the new height...
nice one, will look it up and give it a try!
Did this work?
It didn't no.
The procedure was to open the boot to the desired position and then hold the close button down for 4 seconds and it stores the position in the memory.
But I guess this only applies if you want to set it at less than it's maximum. My issue is that it seems to only open say 90%.
Re: My car is doing my nut in!
Posted: Mon Nov 09, 2015 12:33 pm
by TomRS
I have this issue also, it won’t open the full 100% only goes 90% as you say, tried the height reset but that doesn’t work.
It’s had new boot struts so it’s not them either, unsure how to make this work? Live with it?
Re: My car is doing my nut in!
Posted: Tue Nov 10, 2015 10:30 am
by AudiPartner
Tomj333 wrote:I have this issue also, it won’t open the full 100% only goes 90% as you say, tried the height reset but that doesn’t work.
It’s had new boot struts so it’s not them either, unsure how to make this work? Live with it?
if i pull my finger out and get the car booked in to Audi again then i'll let you know what was done to resolve it.