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I need to change a brake light bulb, but to do that I need to lower the tailgate, and THAT hasn’t worked for a good four years!
The truck is a 94 3 litre.
I’m not overly bothered about having a working tailgate, although I admit it was handy! It’s more for the fact that any components that might have caused the failure in the first place all look rather expensive, and sorting which one I need is beyond my electrical or mechanical scope.
I broke the switch in the central console about six years ago, then totally relied on the key. Now it just clicks, which I assume is a relay? I’ve taken off the rear tailgate panel, and I’ve wrenched the plastic sheeting off too. I’m assuming that I have to get the window down in order to release the “switch lock”, but I can’t see an obvious way to do that, although I’m sure there is one and its just not obvious to me, because I’m an idiot.
All for a bulb! Grr. Can anyone, in really simplistic layman’s terms advise me as to what needs unbolting, and in what sequence in order that I might get the tailgate open and that brake light bulb changed? If there is a real danger of breaking the window, or not being able to raise both it and the tailgate back into place I’ll take it to a garage, but I was hoping to spare myself the expense. Besides, they might insist on fixing it, and complicated things involving electrics and experimentation tends to cost more than I can currently afford, going on past experience!
The truck is a 94 3 litre.
I’m not overly bothered about having a working tailgate, although I admit it was handy! It’s more for the fact that any components that might have caused the failure in the first place all look rather expensive, and sorting which one I need is beyond my electrical or mechanical scope.
I broke the switch in the central console about six years ago, then totally relied on the key. Now it just clicks, which I assume is a relay? I’ve taken off the rear tailgate panel, and I’ve wrenched the plastic sheeting off too. I’m assuming that I have to get the window down in order to release the “switch lock”, but I can’t see an obvious way to do that, although I’m sure there is one and its just not obvious to me, because I’m an idiot.
All for a bulb! Grr. Can anyone, in really simplistic layman’s terms advise me as to what needs unbolting, and in what sequence in order that I might get the tailgate open and that brake light bulb changed? If there is a real danger of breaking the window, or not being able to raise both it and the tailgate back into place I’ll take it to a garage, but I was hoping to spare myself the expense. Besides, they might insist on fixing it, and complicated things involving electrics and experimentation tends to cost more than I can currently afford, going on past experience!
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