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Robbo969



Member Since: 04 Jan 2023
Location: Wantage
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United Kingdom 2011 Range Rover Sport SDV6 HSE Adriatic Blue
Tailgate/Boot wont close and switch like an auto rifle!

Hi there, tried to open the tailgate earlier today and rather than make one click, it made five or six in very rapid time. When I then tried to close again, it first sounded like the soft close worked. But then a second or two later it reversed. The tailgate stayed down (dosn't attempt to move), but it is open. The dashboard shows it as well.

This - as others have pointed out correctly - prevents the car being locked, and I had to drive it with the tailgate open and rattling to get home.

If i use the boot release button on the dashboard, I hear the same rapid firing of the boot release button.

For nearly a year now the boot will sometimes only open partially. It is fine most of the time, but every so often it will open only 20% of the way. Also, and again this is intermittent, the boot close button on the base of the tailgate will sometimes not respond.

Are these linked, and is the first problem as simple as replacing the boot release button or is there something else going on?

Post #640082 Thu Feb 29 2024 10:39pm
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Pistnbroke



Member Since: 22 Sep 2020
Location: rugby
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United Kingdom 2009 Range Rover Sport TDV6 HSE Galway Green

Helps to be told the model and year. Always listen to old people or when they die you will live on in ignorance.
The avatar is a picture of the man with a big cock.
Learned to 4x4 on 100 mile beach and Frazer Island QLD
Dont spend money on old cars you will never get it back

Post #640086 Fri Mar 01 2024 7:55am
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Robbo969



Member Since: 04 Jan 2023
Location: Wantage
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United Kingdom 2011 Range Rover Sport SDV6 HSE Adriatic Blue

Understood! It's a 2011 RRS 3.0 SDV6, the facelifted model. It has a fixed tailgate.

Post #640088 Fri Mar 01 2024 9:08am
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2 RRS



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Location: Shropshire
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United Kingdom 2013 Range Rover Sport SDV6 Autobiography Bourneville

Pistnbroke wrote:
Helps to be told the model and year.


You could always click on his profile and find out!

Post #640091 Fri Mar 01 2024 12:57pm
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Pistnbroke



Member Since: 22 Sep 2020
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United Kingdom 2009 Range Rover Sport TDV6 HSE Galway Green

WTF.....how helpful
Why do RR owners always have to be so sarcastic and clever.
I frequent the Jaguar x100 forum and people are always helpful and polite. If they dont know the answer they shut up Always listen to old people or when they die you will live on in ignorance.
The avatar is a picture of the man with a big cock.
Learned to 4x4 on 100 mile beach and Frazer Island QLD
Dont spend money on old cars you will never get it back

Post #640092 Fri Mar 01 2024 2:31pm
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