Rear boot door is bad design?

[bjays76gti]

It's a special GTI feature when you push the vw badge the tailgate comes up with ease, lol! no 'tugging' required!

[Stoney!]

There is a mod you can do that involves changing the struts. These struts are stronger than the stock ones and open the hatch when you hold the boot open button down.

YouTube - Golf 6 automatic tailgate how to do

A mod I'm planning to do myself.

Hey dude, just our of curiosity. Looking at that vid an from what you say, it opens of the key fob, but the boot button on the key fob on unlocks the boot doesn't it? not actually un latch it? I w2as certain you still had to have a hand party with the badge for that.

Stoney!

[Maverick]

Re: Rear boot door is bad design?

Hey dude, just our of curiosity. Looking at that vid an from what you say, it opens of the key fob, but the boot button on the key fob on unlocks the boot doesn't it? not actually un latch it? I w2as certain you still had to have a hand party with the badge for that.

Stoney!

Check out the guide on my website - www.my-gti.com - to see how it works. You change the operation so the remote triggers the latch. I'll be upgrading my springs soon to the more powerful struts as that is 100% reliable whereas the spring mod is hit and miss after the springs compress after a few months.


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[Stoney!]

Check out the guide on my website - my-gti.com - to see how it works. You change the operation so the remote triggers the latch. I'll be upgrading my springs soon to the more powerful struts as that is 100% reliable whereas the spring mod is hit and miss after the springs compress after a few months.


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Cheers mav, thought as much...

Stoney!

[ozgti]

Hey dude, just our of curiosity. Looking at that vid an from what you say, it opens of the key fob, but the boot button on the key fob on unlocks the boot doesn't it? not actually un latch it? I w2as certain you still had to have a hand party with the badge for that.

Stoney!

Push and hold the boot buttin and it pops the latch.

[ozgti]

Just did this simple mod.

Unbolt the ball joint on the body and rotate it 180 deg. It's the black bracket held on by 2 torx bolts.
You will have to unhook both struts to make it easier and use a broom handle to hold it up or do what I did and use your head!
Once both the brackets are backwards (no need to swap side to side- just rotate it!), the hatch will be slightly lower. *
Once this is done, close the hatch (will need more force to close, but I'd rather that than a hatch that doesn't know if it's open or closed!)
Push and hold the middle boot release button and watch your 10mins of handy work!

*You will need to get the other sturts if you want the hatch to clear your head (if you're tall or just duck a bit more!)


Cancel that. The struts aren't strong enough to push the hatch up. Looks like I'm going to order the Skoda struts!