LR3 LAND ROVER TAIL GATE WONT OPEN I SHOW YOU HOW TO OPEN WHEN IT IS CLOSED
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- LR3 LR5 Non-Opening Tailgate malfunction, how to open when it is closed.....NOT WHEN IT IS ALREADY OPEN! MY quick and easy WAY to get the tailgate opened. easy to disassemble and fix......getting it opened Here is an easy way to open the gate 2005 LR3 which are the same as many other LR3 models.
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tried this out today and I gotta say this is the best video on how to open the lift gate from the inside, I attached a wire from the broken wire to the hole of the actuator that the other half of the broken piece went in, which is a L shaped piece instead of a zip tie works great . Thank you for the video....subscribed👍
Thanks. Watched your video and followed your example. Did the job without any issues. I'm really and pleased and found this video the best and most informative.👍
Awesome!! So glad we could help! Thank you for watching and sharing your results, we really appreciate it, hope you have a fantastic weekend my friend. mad Mike the hammer SPC
Just fantastic - both for showing how to do this with the tailgate shut and the ingenious use of cable ties to solve the problem; something I'd never have thought of doing! To pull the broken cable out of the actuator housing and release the lock I used a brake spring pulling tool - basically a thin metal rod with a little hook at one end and a handle at the other; worked a treat and saved some finger pain!
Thank you so much. Thanks for sharing! Have a great day. mad Mike the hammer SPC
Just wanted to say thank you for this video all the way over in little England. The cable tie trick is absolute mech magic and has saved me £200 and has boosted my ego to no end. Top man.
So glad to help you Danny! Thanks for being here with us all the way from England. Have a great day my friend. mad Mike the hammer SPC
Im going in to look at mine. Finally someone who shows the steps! Those other videos are like riddles lol!
Glad we could help! Thank you so much for watching and commenting, we really appreciate it, have a great day my friend and all the best on your project. mad Mike the hammer SPC
I watched a bunch of videos on this topic but none had enough detail to give me confidence in tackling the job. I watched your video and immediately went out and tackled the job. Took about an hour end to end. Definitely appreciate your taking the time to post this!!!
Glad it was helpful! Thank you for watching and sharing Challis! Have a fantastic day my friend. mad Mike the hammer SPC
THANK YOU SO MUCH!!! Just completed this on my car and it was a snap. Played the video along with the repair and this is the best 'how to' on the internet. SHE'S WORKING LIKE A CHARM NOW...all for less than $10 bucks!
thank you !!!!!
Can't thank you enough for this fantastic video that shows the reality of making the fix with the door locked shut. After weeks of frustration it took me approx 20 mins start to finish to effect the repair using your method. Cheers :)
Hello Carl glad we could help you my friend it is one of those fixes that was very hard to video but luckily we got enough of the information out there to help a lot of great people like yourself have an awesome weekend
This was a HUGE help!! Totally saved me. My gate stopped working today and after watching the video I was able to fix it. The cable had broken at the L where it anchor into the actuator and I was able to use your zip tie method to fix it.
Brent Soderberg good deal my friend glad we could help you and thanks for sharing :) we have many DIY vehicle videos to keep your ride looking and operating like new :)
Thanks for that great video, ive just been out in the snow and fixed mine and it works great, saved me £70 that the main stealer wanted for the lock and cable as you can't buy just the cable. Thanks
Leigh Guy glad we could help you my friend with our many DIYer videos :)
Just this second found this video, after watching many others you where the only one to break it all down. I just followed your steps and I opened it up and repaired it in one and half hour. Booked it into the garage who was charging me £120 to fix it. Hope you get rich from Utube soon mate's you deserve it. I'm a new sub!
good deal Chris glad we could help and glad you are here with us
Best video available regarding locked out LR Discovery 3 tailgate. Thanks 👍
Glad you liked it Steve! Thank you for watching and sharing, we appreciate it, have a great week my friend. mad Mike the hammer SPC
Thanks for this - as you said, everyone else shows the gate open - this is just what I needed.
Just hold open and close together mate and it opens
@@davidmcgranaghan2081 Not when the bottom actuator is dead - pressing two buttons doesn't magically revive a dead actuator unit - I'd already tried that before I came to this video.
By far the best one on how to fix this problem. Solved my problem
So first many thanks, and a new way to catch that cable end. I didn't feel like getting my fingers pinched by the plastic cover so I took some bailing wire, and bent the end into a tight V. This I slipped under the cable with the point end down, then spun it around and pulled up. It caught the cable on the first try and even held it tight enough to pull the cable avoiding the need even for the vice grips. That said, would never have gotten there without your excellent video!
Russell Poulsen THANK YOU VERY MUCH MY FRIEND :)
Massive thank you for this video, showed me exactly what I needed to do to get the tail gate open 👍🏻
Glad it helped Mark! Thank you for watching and sharing, we really appreciate it. Have a fantastic day. mad Mike the hammer SPC
Thank you. I agree with you about the videos only showing the gate open when stuck. Thanks again.
Glad to help! Thanks for the watch, and the comment! Have a great day! mad Mike SPC
Thank you. Proper accurate video. Helped me massively.
Nick Shah glad we could help you my friend, that's what our channel is really about, helping good people like you :)
Thx u so much, for this instruction... Help me to solve the puzzle... Thx
Thanks soo much brother! just did this to my 05 LR3 That loop in the loop with the zipties is genius!! thanks again works like a charm now
That's awesome Erick! So glad we could help my friend, thank you for watching and sharing your results, have a fantastic day. mad Mike the hammer SPC
I just want to say I had this exact same issue yesterday, used the zip ties just like this video and it worked amazing! Thank you!
Great to hear Cody!! So glad we could help! Thank you for watching and sharing your results, hope you have a fantastic weekend my friend. mad Mike the hammer SPC
Thank you so much for your help!!! This is the most helpful video on the topic I found and it worked great. Thank you, Thank you, Thank you.
thank you ryan
Good video just had to do the same with my disco but instead of using pliers I cut a deep v in the end of a screw driver, passed it through the top corner onto the cable and slid it along to the end which then popped the latch. Worked quite well and easier than trying to get your hand inside the door
Thank you for your video! I was able to use a short length of aluminum tig rod and bend a hook into it and grab the cable that way.
Nice!! Glad we could help BC! Thank you for watching and sharing your results, we really appreciate it, hope you have a fantastic week my friend. mad Mike the hammer SPC
Thanks for the video. Very helpful. I couldn’t get my hands in so knocked cable out of actuator housing. Pulled broken cable into car and with pliers and mole grips opened the boot. Have seen on TH-cam some cut cable and do something similar. 👍
Glad it helped Mike! Thank you for watching and sharing, we appreciate it, have a great weekend. mad Mike the hammer SPC
Great video many thanks a logical well informed process 👍
Glad it was helpful Adam! Thank you for watching and sharing, we truly appreciate it, have a great day. mad Mike the hammer SPC
Great video :) fixed mine tonight! Thanks for your effort in making this video.
oh... your welcome Tommy, it was a pain but we got it
This was a huge help thank you!
ron thank you very much for your great comment, it is great for the whole channel to have good people like you here :)
Thanks man, appreciate your help.
Jason Talsma you are very welcome my friend :) have a great day!
Thanks for this. Love my Lr3
Glad to help my friend! Thank you for the view and comment, hope you have a great day. mad Mike
Just opened mine up today so that I could open the tailgate. New actuator ordered. Fitting it will be easy but the fun will begin when I have to refit the door card.
Thank you for watching and sharing Steven, we appreciate it. Hope you have a great day and good luck on your project my friend. mad Mike the hammer SPC
This video is great, I did the repair yesterday. I really appreciate the detail that you went into, particularly on repairing the connector using zip strips (ingeniuos). I only want to add a couple of minor points to the technique you demonstrated. First, I was not able to open the rear panel on my tailgate far enough to get my hand into the actuator, like you did. I have no idea how you got the back panel open that far, I couldn't get the panel around the knobs that the straps on the sides of the tailgate connect to until the tailgate was fully down, at which point I popped the straps off and removed the knobs with a deep socket. So, instead of reaching a hand into the gap between the panel and tailgate, I used the biggest screwdriver I could find and pushed the black plastic cover on the back of the actuator as far open as I could. I then took a pic with a hook end (Harbor Freight item #66836, $1.99) and caught the free end of the cable from inside the actuator enclosure and pulled it where I could get to it. I then used a pair of long needle nosed locking pliers and pulled the end of the cable to the left and the upper gate came open, just as you said it would. I tried fishing it out with a magnet to no avail, it takes something with a hook end. The rest of the repair was a piece of cake and went straight by the instructions in the video. I seriously considered leaving the black plastic cover off of the actuator enclosure in the event I ever have to do this repair again. The inside of my tailgate was extremely clean and the cover is not air or water tight, so I am questioning the need for it. Another problem I had was getting enough light to see what I was working on, my vehicle is black and that makes good spot light absolutely essential to seeing what you are doing; a lighter colored vehicle would definitely be easier to work on. Thanks again for posting this video for those of us who like to work on our own cars. I was very disappointed in the things that Atlantic British left out of their video on this repair, their videos are usually top notch.
DIYERINTN thank you, my friend, we are very glad to help, we do 2-3 videos per week on just about everything large to small on car and truck DIY :) have a great day!
Have you done a video on the problem with LR3's where warm air doesn't blow through the driver's side vents? That's my next repair.
Harold Brewer we have not dont this video as of yet but this may help from our experience with this issue:we have seen a few things cause this, from the heater core, clogging up, the blend motor failing, and even the blend door flap in the heater box failing, both mechanically, and from the seal melting/deteriorating. The best way that I have found to test it is as follows. Turn Econ on, set to a medium fan speed and face level vents, and let the engine warm up. Set one side to hot and the other to cold(not all the way, but one notch before full hot/cold) Check temp coming out. Change one temp to match the other. Check the air temp again. Reverse temp selections that were first set, one hot one cold. Recheck temps, and then both to the same setting as above, and check one last time. Feeling is usually enough of an indicator, no thermometer needed. By setting one to hot and the other to cold, you limit the path of air passing over the heater core, so if it is clogging, you will still get warm air on each side by doing this. It might not be as warm one side to the other, but it will be far better than with both sides set to warm. If the blend motor or door itself has failed, there will not be any change of temp when going from hot-cold to match the other side. If a blend motor/door issue is found to be the case, the motor can be removed, and the door manually moved. This should give full heat on the side that there wasn't before. If it is not, then it is either the door itself not sealing, or the heater core is blocked up and wasn't checked properly above. hope this helps my friend. Mike
This guy has it figured out. Fixed my issue
Glad we could help! Thanks for sharing, we truly appreciate it! Have a great day my friend. mad Mike the hammer SPC
Sweet Project Cars other videos had me sticking a tool in the hole on the actuator, but the actuator wasn’t the problem - it was the tip of the wire had broken off and it was no longer attached to the actuator. I just rigged it up with some cheap wire from Lowe’s and it’s working like a charm.
Thank you so much for your help managed to do it 😊
Glad it helped mick! Good Job!! Thank you for watching and sharing your results, have a great day my friend. mad Mike the hammer SPC
Well done Buddy..all i needed to know..Mine wont open and dog guard with dogs in the back..FFS..Dropped rear seats to get Hounds out..thanks Again..Paul
Good deal Paul glad we could help you my friend have a great night Mike Sweet project cars
Just did it..!!! Thank you sr..!!!
Great job Mao! Glad we could help! Thank you for watching and sharing, have a fantastic week my friend. mad Mike the hammer SPC
Great video you are right is the way to show it
Thank you very much! Have a fantastic day. mad Mike the hammer SPC
Awesome work!!! Can I know if the screen happens to show any failures when you finish the job?
no failures to show you grab the cable and pull it and bam it opens
Awesome video, you helped me so much! Couple questions for you as I am stuck:
1. If I have the L shaped cable and it broke how do I re-attach? Just zip-ties? Any other suggestions?
2. I ripped off the waterproof liner any ideas on what to replace that with?
Eric Delie good quality zip ties are very strong or you can order the replacement for land rover, as far as the liner use this to re-attach amzn.to/2IhquYf hope this helps :)
Thanks, am I shit out of luck if the L piece is broken? I was hoping to rig something up.
Eric you may be SOL on that and a salvage yard or eBay or the dealer might your only resort my friend, sorry
good video, I had the same problem. Nobody finished the job only beginning and ending.
Im with you Jonni you have to know how to get it open when it is closed thanks much :)
its tricky! LOL
Thank you for the video and can you tell me if there is no power in back door what I have to do
Get one of these amzn.to/37wi6nw and start checking every wire that comes into the door. Hope this helps. Have a great day. mad Mike the hammer SPC
thanks
Suffering from no access to boot issue too.
Last weekend I managed to get everything open, managed to unscrew the 2 bolts that fix the actuator to the lower tailgate, but didn't disconnect electrics.
I closed up as I didn't have all the parts to do the fix broken wire issue then.
Today I went back to crack on and I’ve managed to get the top tail gate open again but lower is stuck. I don't hear an acuator when I press the square button.
No matter how hard I pull on cable behind the black plastic nothing happens.
Any ideas? Any help much appreciated. Need to get this sorted first then replace the top tailgate handle/switch too. 🙄🙄🙄🙄
ross the lever we show in the video is the only way we know you can get it open ...you have to that again thank you very much hope this helps :)
Great video.
Thank You
@@SweetProjectCars I didn't have to use any tools or rods or anything, just my 2 normal long screwdrivers to prise the carpeted panel, then using a long screwdriver I just pushed the black plastic cover on the actuator hard back and using my fingers pushed the cable out and used a regular pliers to pull the cable.
Chris good deal glad to fixed the issue my friend
I need same vid guide for LR2...appreciate the help
Thanks Lalitkishor, we appreciate your view and comment! Hope you have a great evening. mad Mike the hammer SPC
So I have an 06 LR3. I tried to pry the panel back and didn’t have much luck. I figured if I could get the LR dealership just to pop it off for a minimal cost, I could fix the rest based on your video. The dealership said that the only way to get the panel off is to break it. I laughed, made some derogatory comment and left. So, do you think there is much difference between 05 and 06 panels and the smug prick is right?
Should just apply some more pressure in popping it off? Once I figure out how to get that off, I’m confident the rest will be a breeze based on the video and everyone else’s feedback.
Yes just apply more pressure you’ll get it off with no problem I cannot believe the Land Rover dealer said that to you
Sweet Project Cars We got it!! Thanks for the video and my wife’s small hands.
Good video
Glad you enjoyed Danny! Thank you for the view and comment, we really appreciate it, hope you have a great weekend my friend. mad Mike the hammer SPC
Or if you press and hold the lock and unlock bottom in the cab it opens. It’s a lot easier then this
Not when the cable is broke there Einstein, you are incorrect, wish it had been that simple believe me! Thanks for watching. mad Mike the hammer SPC
Got it all apart and my cable is still connected, I can open it this way, but even with the cable connected the top still won’t open any idea?
Nice to drive. But nothing but problems the his truck🤦♂️Having the same issue
We didn't have many issues with it, but this one took some ingenuity :) Thanks for watching and sharing Brett, have a great day. mad Mike the hammer SPC
just out of interest how come you didn't use the LR3s backup tailgate release. Holding the interior Lock & Unlock buttons together for 4 seconds will pop the Tailgate.
that works if the cable is NOT broke....most all cables break as with ours...
Was it making noises before you started working on it
It wasn't making any noises, the cable was flopping because it was disconnected. If you have this problem, this video will point you in the right direction. Thanks for asking. Have a great day. mad Mike the hammer SPC
Hi .. the upper part of the tailgate is OK .. but I have the problem with low part . When I press the button I can hear the noise but it's not opening.. can anyone help me with that?
The method in the video works for the lower part as well, make sure you watch the video a couple of times Rayan. Thanks for asking, have a great day. mad Mike the hammer SPC
It works with LR4 right?
Yes it will Rayan. Thanks for watching, have a great weekend. mad Mike the hammer SPC
Will this work for a Freelander 2
Keith if it is around the same year and has the same style gate then yes it will work :)
Thanks will give it a try
good luck my friend :)
Dude starts out zoomed in, so we have no idea where on the rear gate we are
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thank you very much...and for the great comment, we are glad you are here with us :)
I made like this and the plastic got melt so better use some iron wire.
Thanks for sharing Mike