Tailgate 740 Estate

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noreply@invalid - 28 Nov 2004 15:22 GMT

1988 740 Estate

I had a problem with opening the tailgate, it would only open from the
inside.
I changed everything even the central locking on the tailgate and all worked
fine.
In the last few days the problem is back, unable to open tailgate only from
inside.

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Andy Dingley - 30 Nov 2004 02:28 GMT

>I had a problem with opening the tailgate, it would only open from the
>inside.

When you close it, try making sure that the outer handle is pushed
fully down. If you don't do this on mine, the central locking can't
unlock it.

This does seem to be a problem area on 740 estates.

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Ken Hutchison - 29 Dec 2004 09:56 GMT

Same thing happened to me when I had a 1986 740 gl estate. I think the
problem is caused by a broken return spring on the handle.

>>I had a problem with opening the tailgate, it would only open from the
>>inside.
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>
> This does seem to be a problem area on 740 estates.

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