Yeah, so this happened.
We got home today and the power lift gate just stopped working. We also could not close the door manually, nothing was budging. So that sucked.
As you can hopefully see on this video, I was only able to push the gate down a few inches before there was massive resistance to the point where it could no longer move.
https://imgur.com/a/6x4eoXS
I dont know if you can get sound on that but imagine just a ... resistance? noise. I would try to bring it down and it was just stopped. At first I thought it was the hydrolic arms holding the gate up but I unhooked the one on the left and it still wasn't moving so I came to it being the power arm.
I managed to pop off the lift gate arm as it was preventing the whole thing from shutting, but then when I popped off the inside clip the whole thing just slid down into a space that I didn't know existed. It was gone and I have no idea how to get it back. Oops.
Also, is this something that a regular person can repair or could there be a lot more damage someplace in the motor there that moves it up and down?
Door now closes though, manually. Locks and everything, so its functional, just the power part is no longer there and I wonder if I will ever see it again.
We got home today and the power lift gate just stopped working. We also could not close the door manually, nothing was budging. So that sucked.
As you can hopefully see on this video, I was only able to push the gate down a few inches before there was massive resistance to the point where it could no longer move.
https://imgur.com/a/6x4eoXS
I dont know if you can get sound on that but imagine just a ... resistance? noise. I would try to bring it down and it was just stopped. At first I thought it was the hydrolic arms holding the gate up but I unhooked the one on the left and it still wasn't moving so I came to it being the power arm.
I managed to pop off the lift gate arm as it was preventing the whole thing from shutting, but then when I popped off the inside clip the whole thing just slid down into a space that I didn't know existed. It was gone and I have no idea how to get it back. Oops.
Also, is this something that a regular person can repair or could there be a lot more damage someplace in the motor there that moves it up and down?
Door now closes though, manually. Locks and everything, so its functional, just the power part is no longer there and I wonder if I will ever see it again.