Tailgate failure

[MarkBluemel]

Last year around February, my powered tail gate (Accord Tourer) failed. The local garage replaced the motor and all was well for just over a year.

It's now failed again and I'd rather like to avoid an annual repair bill for it.

Should I go to a Honda dealer this time - if so which are the good ones?
or can anyone recommend a good independent in North East Hampshire or North West Surrey - I'm in Alton?

 

[vile]

Welcome Mark have a search there its lots on this topic

 

[Dan Robinson]

Welcome.

 

[CJM]

Welcome along Mark,

 

[photomems]

Last year around February, my powered tail gate (Accord Tourer) failed. The local garage replaced the motor and all was well for just over a year.

It's now failed again and I'd rather like to avoid an annual repair bill for it.

Should I go to a Honda dealer this time - if so which are the good ones?
or can anyone recommend a good independent in North East Hampshire or North West Surrey - I'm in Alton?

Hi Mark
did you have a flat battery at the time if so disconnect the battery completely and then reconnect and it will reset itself

regards
richard

 

[MarkBluemel]

Last year around February, my powered tail gate (Accord Tourer) failed. The local garage replaced the motor and all was well for just over a year.

It's now failed again and I'd rather like to avoid an annual repair bill for it.

Should I go to a Honda dealer this time - if so which are the good ones?
or can anyone recommend a good independent in North East Hampshire or North West Surrey - I'm in Alton?

Update. My local (to my work) garage investigated and found corrosion in the catch ***embly, They cleaned it up and got it working again, but warned me it may well need replacing. It failed again about a week later, and I got them to replace the ***embly. All is fine now.

My biggest gripe is that the bl**dy thing doesn't fail gracefully to a manual mode. Once it's playing up, you can only open the boot from inside, which is a wind-up.

I love the car so much otherwise though...

 

[entwisi]

Yep, mine did that, was a real PITA, what the heck was wrong with a mechanical latch for opening it, I managed to strip the catch ***embly on mine and bend the contacts on the rotating position sensors and its been fine since, did need a disconnect of teh battery to reset it though.

 

[marwayj]

Hi Guys,

I have a success story, my tailgate light came on and boot would not open electronically (manually it was ok). I checked most things mentioned in this forum.
Yesterday I called Lee at Holdgate in Stoke to see if they can look at it (again thanks to the Forum for the contact details)
booked it in today and after a hour wait it came back fixed!, they reset the computer and all is fine.

I will be calling Lee tomorrow to thank him.!