Help: Rear Hatch won't open w/o....
05-03-2007, 11:02 PM
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Wait.. the hatch is supposed to open all the way up when pressing the button?
05-04-2007, 10:46 AM
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b/c when i have to put stuff in it, i just don't wanna put it in the back seat, since i have a sapce in the trunk.. but it's so annoying ,because i have to take out my key and push the button, and wait there to open it up, b/c if it's too late, it will get stuck.
05-05-2007, 03:57 PM
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I did something similar except that I actually replaced the spring with a shorter and stiffer spring instead of piggybacking another spring onto the original one. Mine has worked fine for a few months now and I've used it several times. I don't recall the exact length (maybe it was ~3"?), but I went to a hardware store and found one that was close to the original one but a little shorter. I bought it, tried it, and it was still too long to open it every time, so I returned it and got a shorter one and it worked fine.
05-06-2007, 07:37 AM
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Like everyone said installuniversity.com & ls1howto.com have a lot of great information. You problem is the spring and you can replace it or get a piggyback set up.
