Rear tail gate locked shut

[komodo]

Locked rear large tail gate, remedied took off plastic panel by removing floor schutle to give more leverage then removed large metal panel with the electronics fitted.

Placed screw driver into arm of lock, pushed up and unlocked tail gate, phew.

Now the tail gate is open, found that the door handle when pulled up moved the lock mech from its secured position top right hand side (black plastic mech ?) and I found where the screws hold onto the rest of the mech it was broken. Secured for now with zip tie...does work but not ideal......but need the mechamisim......its held inplace with 3 rivets and will require drilling out and the new mech inserted..............could anyone help by letting me know where i could obtain one of these mechs and the rivets. Some sites I have checked do not offer this? or main dealer Toyota agaent?

All the electrics are fine, central locking works, cables are fine, rear window works with key inserted.

3rd Gen 3.0Ltr

Regards

keith

[Hawaii]

hi komodo

bit of good news here as Toyota use the same locking mech bit for most of their vehicles. Only differences are in the cables/rods to attach the handle etc.

Suggest you drill out the rivets of the old one, take a trip to local scrappy and you should be able to get a mtch from any other hilux, corolla, primera etc.

otherwise you could try main dealer (tailgate locking mech) but won't be cheap and you'll have a problem in getting correct part number etc.

best of luck

ta

hawaii

[komodo]

cheers for the reply..................

I will get looking at the nearest scrappy

keith

[charvell]

are you sure you had not pressed the central locking lock switch in side the truck? that locks the tailgate