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Rear automatic tailgate will not disengage.


Rufus 1995
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Hi all hope someone knows the answer ? 
The automatic tailgate on my 2015 Audi stopped opening. The door button the boot button and the key fob would not open it. 
i took the trim off and changed the actuator which I bought on eBay so a copy part. No luck. I changed the lock mechanism and the boot handle. No luck with any of them. The strange thing is if I push the white leaver over by hand and disengage the lock them the fob and boot handle open the boot as normal. In desperation I bought an official Audi actuator and still no joy. All  the wires look intact and when I disconnect and  reconnect the one lead that goes into it I can hear a motor engage. 

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Welcome Les,

Always worth eliminating a possible fracture in the cabling within the flexible harness section twixt body and tailgate. 
Please let us know how you get on with this inspection.

Kind regards,

Gareth. 

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Hello Les,

You are not confirming - when you say it’s sound - that you have actually peeled back the flexible harness covering, and inspected the cables within. 
Have you? 
If not, what you are saying is misleading.

Kind regards,

Gareth. 

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Thanks Les, so for anyone actually following this, you don’t know at this stage whether the wires inside the flexible harness are indeed sound. 
Kind regards,

Gareth. 

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