Tailgate and Rear wiper issue.

[Jockepocke2002]

Hi all,

I have a VW Polo 1.4 TDI 2009. Soon after I bought it this summer I noticed that the tailgate would occasionally not open. When I tried to open it the electrical opening mechanism would be totally nonresponsive, and I could not here any actuators working at all. This suggests to me that the error is electrical rather than mechanical. However, at other times the tailgate would open with no problems at all. I couldn't really find a pattern of when it would respond and when not. As half a year has gone this issue has started to occur more frequently and now it is more often than not that I can't get it open. I soon discovered that the sunroof window is having similar issues.

Now lately my rear windshield wiper has also stopped working. It did however stop working without this period of time where it would sometimes work and sometimes not. It seems likely to me that all of these are electrical issues, and that they are somehow connected, but of course I might be wrong about that.

Any help on this would be greatly appreciated.

Best regards,
Joacim

[RUM4MO]

You really do need to get the trim panel off and see what is happening under there, it could just be a water leak causing corrosion on the lock mechanism - or at least in its plug/socket.

Or you have two different problems, as above for the lock and maybe even broken wires inside the rubber protection boot where the cables pass through into the rear hatch - or this is the reason why you have both these issues, loss of an earth could cause both as well, for the same reason, so maybe try earthing the rear hatch, when closed, to the car body using a jump lead - and see if it sorts out both your problems.