Wife managed to confuse our 07MY soft-shut rear boot/hatch today. Pressing the unlock button then lifting under the hatch lip resulted in the hatch open and the boot half-way unlatched. Closing the hatch left the boot still part unlatched and loose, refusing to open completely, or close

Trip to dealer and they must have reset the mechanism, wife was told she had "opened it wrong" and all is well again..... Cheers

Simon

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Really useful of them to tell her she had opened it incorrectly - she must have realised that the second she pressed the button! Hope she wacked the technician one with her handbag! 2020 Pangea Green 1st Edition D240 New Defender 110 is here and loving it
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Last edited by Tim in Scotland on Wed Jun 13 2007 10:12am. Edited 1 time in total

"She opened it wrongly".... is that from the same book of excuse that the rail companies use? "Wrong type of snow" etc...  

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shmoogle wrote:

"She opened it wrongly".... is that from the same book of excuse that the rail companies use? "Wrong type of snow" etc...

Yup I thjink so. I think that you could probably reproduce the scenario by:

Push Boot button
Quickly lift upper hatch release
Boot now stops opening as hatch now open
Hatch being open now stops boot movement
Soft-shut release software goes into infinite loop....
Aaaaarrrrrghhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh!

I´m just note sure how the dealer reset the boot......! Cheers

Simon

2007 2.7HSE 20" Wheels
2005 TDV6 D3 S Auto - Zambezi Silver - JE Tune - RRS 19" - Sidesteps - Roof Rails
Body Side Strips - Xenons - Bright Pack - Cold Pack - Premium Stereo
Alpine Roof - Towpack - Alpine Touchscreen Satnav - Veba Rear DVD changer
Alpine Roof Monitor - Webasto FBH Timer - Brembo Frt & S/C Rr Brakes

Probably just disconnected the battery. Arctic Frost TDV6 SE. Aspen Leather, Cherry Wood, Privacy Glass, PTI, Tow Pack, Mudflaps, Tasmods, a new Fuelflap, a RRSport.co.uk umbrella in the boot & a RRSport.co.uk sticker on the rear glass.
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Last sunday while at Barrets in Ashford a new D3 was in getting it's back door sorted out by the salesman, and the SO chimes in "I see they still havn't sorted out the backdoor problems with landys"

I’ve had the boot door get stuck in the half closed / half open state, a few times.

First time I was in a real sweat & didn’t know what to do, so I just gave the boot lid a few “very firm” shoves to get it back to the fully closed position, which worked out just fine.

But what I’ve discovered on subsequent occurrences of getting the boot stuck in this position, is this……

If you cycle the push button a few times, while with your other hand lifting the boot to open it by the handle, it will sort itself out.