Where is the rear hatch release?
10-07-2021, 12:46 AM
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Where is the rear hatch release?
Rear hatch motor?
I've been having loads of fun the past few weekends tinkering. Scraped the old hood liner and replaced, hunted down a parasitic power loss to a dome light (replaced after checking EVERYTHING else first), a few other diagnostic odds and ends. Most of my success has been due to this forum - so thank you! So many of us would be lost without this resource, especially living in the sticks.
Mine is an '82 (3/82), maybe a Weissach, judging by the badge on the dash, #219, which is supposedly not supposed to exist.
The other thing that shouldn't exist, from what I've read here, is the hatch release motor.
But isn't that what's in the photo?
And if it is, where is the switch? I thought it was supposed to be on the driver's side left floor? No sign of it or that it was ever there. Just the speaker dial.
In all my reading, I think someone posted this same question before but I have not been able to track it down again.
Sorry if I"m bringing up something that's already been a thread, my search has been fruitless. And this just feels like a really stupid question anyway.
I have the original '82 owner's manual and there's no mention of the hatch release.
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gazfish (10-07-2021)
10-07-2021, 11:32 AM
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if you did have a hatch release,
it would be in the center of the tool tray opening,
under the latch of the hatch.
it would be in the center of the tool tray opening,
under the latch of the hatch.
10-07-2021, 12:32 PM
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If you had one... it would probably have given you some grief already! - so maybe you dodged one...
It was a poorly engineered solution from Porsche (well Hella). It can't be relied on to run properly over the long term - and even when it does run properly it still may not reliably actually open the hatch - particularly as things wear.
Alan
It was a poorly engineered solution from Porsche (well Hella). It can't be relied on to run properly over the long term - and even when it does run properly it still may not reliably actually open the hatch - particularly as things wear.
Alan
10-07-2021, 03:16 PM
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If you had one... it would probably have given you some grief already! - do maybe you dodged one...
It was a poorly engineered solution from Porsche (well Hella). It can't be relied on to run properly over the long term - and even when it does run properly it still may not reliably actually open the hatch - particularly as things wear.
Alan
It was a poorly engineered solution from Porsche (well Hella). It can't be relied on to run properly over the long term - and even when it does run properly it still may not reliably actually open the hatch - particularly as things wear.
Alan