Soft Close Tail Gate

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Evening,

I’m looking for some advice please?

My VW 2016 T6 Cali Ocean’s soft close tailgate isn’t working anymore. The boot locks but it no longer soft closes. I’d like to rule something out as simple as a fuse before I start getting in to more potentially advanced faults. Can anyone tell me specifically where this fuse is located as there’s 3 x fuse boxes? Any idea of fuse number also and how to access?

And if it isn’t the fuse once replaced, if anybody has had this problem before and what helped them to resolve?

Many thanks
Steve

 

[WelshGas]

Evening,

I’m looking for some advice please?

My VW 2016 T6 Cali Ocean’s soft close tailgate isn’t working anymore. The boot locks but it no longer soft closes. I’d like to rule something out as simple as a fuse before I start getting in to more potentially advanced faults. Can anyone tell me specifically where this fuse is located as there’s 3 x fuse boxes? Any idea of fuse number also and how to access?

And if it isn’t the fuse once replaced, if anybody has had this problem before and what helped them to resolve?

Many thanks
Steve

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[gazlarge]

Evening,

I’m looking for some advice please?

My VW 2016 T6 Cali Ocean’s soft close tailgate isn’t working anymore. The boot locks but it no longer soft closes. I’d like to rule something out as simple as a fuse before I start getting in to more potentially advanced faults. Can anyone tell me specifically where this fuse is located as there’s 3 x fuse boxes? Any idea of fuse number also and how to access?

And if it isn’t the fuse once replaced, if anybody has had this problem before and what helped them to resolve?

Many thanks
Steve

 

[gazlarge]

Hi
Thanks for your prompt response and guiding me to resources I have taken a look on there and it’s pointing me to possibly 2 fuses a 15a. Or a 20a. I will have a look tomorrow and see if either need replacing thanks for your help

 

[Silverace_Junior]

Hi
Thanks for your prompt response and guiding me to resources I have taken a look on there and it’s pointing me to possibly 2 fuses a 15a. Or a 20a. I will have a look tomorrow and see if either need replacing thanks for your help

Will you also keep us posted, please? Interested to know if you find the issue and for future reference.

 

[BristolCali]

Are you sure it’s the fuse. My experience of the soft close on the side door is it fails sometimes because the electrical contacts that make to instruct the motor get dirty. I can’t recall what triggers the boot though.

 

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Are you sure it’s the fuse. My experience of the soft close on the side door is it fails sometimes because the electrical contacts that make to instruct the motor get dirty. I can’t recall what triggers the boot though.

Hi Thanks for your help regarding the soft close tailgate I do believe my pal already looked at the contacts I'm waiting for him to come and look again at the fuses its so difficult just to try to locate the correct fuse and that's even after looking at some of the fuse box diagrams in the resources section my pal works a lot of the time so I may have to wait a day or 2 for him to have another go at the mend but I will keep all informed if he manages to fix it fingers crossed

 

[BristolCali]

Hi Thanks for your help regarding the soft close tailgate I do believe my pal already looked at the contacts I'm waiting for him to come and look again at the fuses its so difficult just to try to locate the correct fuse and that's even after looking at some of the fuse box diagrams in the resources section my pal works a lot of the time so I may have to wait a day or 2 for him to have another go at the mend but I will keep all informed if he manages to fix it fingers crossed

I just went out and checked my T6 and I can’t find equivalent contacts on the boot that are used on the sliding door so I guess boot closing is detected by the latch. Some wd40 on the boot mechanism and a few operations might not go amiss if you haven’t already.