Hello, does anyone manage to retrofit, I'm interested for my O3. When I bought it this option was not available. Can we get some details? Thanks

We if you let happen you're a fool.  This situation is no different to a normal manual boot, just stop it with your hand.  Although in 15 years driving i'm yet to find a multi-story car park with a ceiling that low you can't fully open the boot of an average sized car like an octavia.

 

Then go to the metrocentre in Newcastle (Europe's biggest shopping centre so not exactly tiny) - in the multi-storey there is concrete reinforcement that runs every 10th space or so and is about 1.5ft lower than the ceiling.  It's about 1" below the full opening height of a boot so can be very easy to hit if you don't realise there's anything different about the space you're in and the one next to you.

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Europe's biggest shopping centre

 

Completely off-topic (apologies) - but as with all these things, it depends on how you measure it.  By retail space, I think that's still true (or, at least, it's certainly still the biggest in the UK).  But by total leasable area, including restaurants, cinemas etc., then I believe the crown is now with Westfield in Stratford, next to the Olympic Park.

Completely off-topic (apologies) - but as with all these things, it depends on how you measure it.  By retail space, I think that's still true (or, at least, it's certainly still the biggest in the UK).  But by total leasable area, including restaurants, cinemas etc., then I believe the crown is now with Westfield in Stratford, next to the Olympic Park.

Someone had better tell the owners of the metro centre that as their website states "at 1.9 million sq ft intu Metrocentre was the original mega mall and remains Europe's largest covered shopping and leisure centre today"

Someone had better tell the owners of the metro centre that as their website states "at 1.9 million sq ft intu Metrocentre was the original mega mall and remains Europe's largest covered shopping and leisure centre today"

 

Is that 1.9m sq ft in total, or of leasable space, or retail space?  Not that I'm overly bothered - and that does say 'covered shopping and leisure centre'... a lot of developments these days aren't completely under cover.

 

In any case, anything in Europe is dwarfed by this: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_South_China_Mall - even if it is and always has been pretty much empty.

Hello! Aanyone has any informations about retrofiting that ?

Hi I'm also interested in this retrofit option and apparently it is possible the closest explanation that I got is from VAG group :

http://www.vwaudiforum.co.uk/forum/showthread.php/163625-Fitting-the-automatic-boot-open-closure

The parts are quite expensive, the struts are around £450 per side if I remember correctly. I'm on my 4th pair of struts after they keep leaking

Ah Briskoda.....ask a question and get a load of tosh!

Can it be retro fitted......yes. But I would guess you are looking at well over £1k it parts alone. A day then there is the coding etc to deal with.

To comment of the rest.

I could have knocked my tailgate on the roof at my mums work car park. To be honest I've not been in a car park with a roof as low as that, most are high enough not to worry. I was being lazy and opened it from the inside, but realised in time and stopped it via the button.

Is it a pointless option, probably Yes, but I've found it useful, plus you can stop it's position by either key or button. However I would suggest this option if no warranty, as mine have been replaced once already (at 10 months old).

Well I spec'd them from new and have them on mine, I am on my second set through leaking struts. These (supposedly uprated ones with a different part number) are leaking now too and are being replaced

 

I do find it slow in operation but being able to open it from the key when you are near the car helps, especially in the

 

As far as car parks go  :sun:  I can't see the problem. The cut out is so sensitive that I have had it stop more than once with a decent gust of wind! If you were unfortunate enough to let it open into a roof I would say the damage would be minimal, if any.

 

I would definitely not spec it again and will look at retrofitting standard struts if they keep failing out of warranty. Certainly not worth £900 a pair when they fail.

Mine are leaking fluid excessively and are getting changed this week (12k)

 

The A4's don't seem to use the same struts

Hi everyone,sorry for going back to such an old thread,but but someone can help me with something concerning this retrofit.i got a donor car and isolated all the cables from boot to bcm,door control module and can gateway,but when i was taking out the whole loom from the donor car i cut all the cables that looked like that had nothing to do with the rear of the car anymore,but later i found out that from the center console button there are 3 cables,and by accident i cut the brown,now the problem is i don't know where that brown is going,can gateway? Body ground?thanks.