Craig, buddy have you got a picture of the part numbers on a strut by any chance? or the force in Newton Meters Yesterday I couldn't spell Engineer... Today I are one!
Inventor of the 'Guide-o-Matic automatic wheel alignment tool'
Former long term L322 owner, Up/Down graded to a Classic Tractor!

I don't want to hijack the thread (after all I'm in the queue for another of Paul's efforts) but what I find to be a pain is that if you are in the drivers seat and release the upper tailgate with the button on the dash then jump out and close the drivers door the air pressure change or whatever causes the tailgate to lock again before you get round there - catches me every time (no pun intended)  Geoff

I know what you mean , that has driven me nuts for years  2008 MY Supercharged
Rimini Red / Jet
four zone climate
remote park heater
and no ugly kid windows.
magnus satis quod turpis satis

So are you after a micro strut to push the upper tailgate a couple of inches?
God knows I could do with that, not that I'm in the habit of running around the car trying to get in the boot.
My gripe is, you only have to nudge the tailgate as you grab it to open it and the things latched up again So I have then either got to zap it with the key, again, or open the whole car just to gain access
I think that might be the next thing that I look in to, something to give it a wee nudge, so the bloody thing can't lock again without a shove  Yesterday I couldn't spell Engineer... Today I are one!
Inventor of the 'Guide-o-Matic automatic wheel alignment tool'
Former long term L322 owner, Up/Down graded to a Classic Tractor!

Mines got a button on the upper tailgate to open it, so I just press that again as my hand is already there.... don't you have this button??? Pete
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2012 L322 Autobiography 5.0 Supercharged Ipanema Sand Sold
2011 L322 Vogue SE 4.4 TDV8 Baltic Blue. Sold
2002 L322 Vogue 4.4 V8 Epson Green (Fatty Offroader) Sold
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Pete, the switch / latch release / handle for the upper tailgate does not work if your using the button on the key fob and the rest of the car is locked
Cleverly the alarm is switched off when the tailgate is opened using the key fob, and then it is switched back on when the tailgate is shut.
If I had 1 press total opening on the car then unlocking the whole thing and using the switch / handle would be the obvious way to go, but, I have the stupid anti, sanity, hijack american spec locking system, that requires 2 pulses of the button with a pause in between to open the whole car. Which truth be known usually requires at lest 4 goes on the button to let me in, when I'm on site and working from the back of the car it is way easier to press the tailgate button  Yesterday I couldn't spell Engineer... Today I are one!
Inventor of the 'Guide-o-Matic automatic wheel alignment tool'
Former long term L322 owner, Up/Down graded to a Classic Tractor!

Miggit, just a quick thought for you sir... I DONT use that tailgate opening button after opening it that way, accidentally dropping/or placing my keys in the boot, then closing the boot!!! In Cornwall!!! Without a spare with me!

Suffice to say, it was a long drive home in my fathers car to collect my spare! Luckily my wife had her house keys with her! Otherwise i would have had to put the window through to retrieve my keys

This happened some 5 years into owning L322's!

You ALL have been warned

I ALWAYS check that the key is in my pocket before closing the boot, as I'm very aware that I'd be screwed if the lid was to drop with the key in there
Just a thought, maybe you should keep a spare key at your parents, would save the 5 hour return trip  Yesterday I couldn't spell Engineer... Today I are one!
Inventor of the 'Guide-o-Matic automatic wheel alignment tool'
Former long term L322 owner, Up/Down graded to a Classic Tractor!

supershuttle wrote:

I don't want to hijack the thread (after all I'm in the queue for another of Paul's efforts) but what I find to be a pain is that if you are in the drivers seat and release the upper tailgate with the button on the dash then jump out and close the drivers door the air pressure change or whatever causes the tailgate to lock again before you get round there - catches me every time (no pun intended)

mine stopped doing that after a boot seal replacement

Good tip, Ironhorse...

Paul, There is a setting in the CCF to configure one press global opening.... Pete
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2014 L405 Autobiography SDV8 4.4 Loire Blue Ebony interior
2012 L322 Autobiography 5.0 Supercharged Ipanema Sand Sold
2011 L322 Vogue SE 4.4 TDV8 Baltic Blue. Sold
2002 L322 Vogue 4.4 V8 Epson Green (Fatty Offroader) Sold
-Click for Project Fatty off roader-

miggit wrote:

I ALWAYS check that the key is in my pocket before closing the boot, as I'm very aware that I'd be screwed if the lid was to drop with the key in there
Just a thought, maybe you should keep a spare key at your parents, would save the 5 hour return trip

My Mum lives 2 mins away in the next Village

We were on holiday with them a few years ago!

New boot seal, check

Pete CCF ? I aint got that on the Navcoder I suppose that it's a IID tool thing , The next you'll be telling me is you can program the Lazy Key option as well

Craig, at least it would have been their fault for not bringing the spare key Cos if anyone knows you are likely to lock your key in the boot, it should be the person who knows you the best, your Mum  Yesterday I couldn't spell Engineer... Today I are one!
Inventor of the 'Guide-o-Matic automatic wheel alignment tool'
Former long term L322 owner, Up/Down graded to a Classic Tractor!

Yep, the best bit of the IID is that within the CCF you can enable the center console replicator and make food, drink and anything else you want......  Pete
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2014 L405 Autobiography SDV8 4.4 Loire Blue Ebony interior
2012 L322 Autobiography 5.0 Supercharged Ipanema Sand Sold
2011 L322 Vogue SE 4.4 TDV8 Baltic Blue. Sold
2002 L322 Vogue 4.4 V8 Epson Green (Fatty Offroader) Sold
-Click for Project Fatty off roader-

you must have the Star Trek Replicator
I asked for one of those on the option list, however I ended up with the Stargate one

Quote:

In Star Trek a replicator is a machine capable of creating (and recycling) objects (Wikipedia)

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In the military science fiction series Stargate SG-1, the Replicators are antagonistic self-replicating machines that are driven to replicate by consuming both alloys and technologies (Wikipedia)

That would explain why my ffrr is on self destruct all the time  Yesterday I couldn't spell Engineer... Today I are one!
Inventor of the 'Guide-o-Matic automatic wheel alignment tool'
Former long term L322 owner, Up/Down graded to a Classic Tractor!

Just did this mod as my straps were rusty as

Nice job.

Thanks Dan......