Hi Guys, I've just got this cringey feeling that at some point someone or a passenger will open the tail gate and it will scrape up a wall or similar.  I did a little test the other day using my daughter, and yep....there's no sensor detecting objects which it would crash into when opening.   It just barged my daughter out of the way.  I know you can used the 'red' bar on the tailgate camera to judge distance etc, but sometimes the car needs snugging in a bit closer and then pulling forward before opening the tailgate, or an accidental press of the boot opener on the key fob and wait for the crunch it's tears all round. 

 

I was curious to know if anyone had found any decent rubber bump stops or similar to put under the bottom lip of the tailgate.  Very similar to what we used to put of car doors in the 80's etc.

 

Any help or advice would be much appreciated.  Thanks

Have no idea of any stoppers but it's a bloody good idea - I'm sure the same anxiety has crossed everyone's mind.

 

I tried opening the electric boot when I was in the showroom. The rear of the car was parked towards the wall and there was enough room for it to open, unfortunately I was stood at the rear of the car.  It pinned me against the wall with quite a force, fortunately I could reach the button to stop it.  Would have looked funny on CCTV but not at the time. I shudder to think if it had been a child tho. 

Could you imagine a dark morning and pressing the wrong button to unlock, and then remembering you'd reversed up tight to a wall or post....and hearing the crunch.  Or as you rightly say....imagine a kid trying to get in the boot a bit hasty for a choc bar in a shopping bag and then getting crushed between the boot door and a wall, after pressing the boot open button??.   Not great.....

Must be something wrong, you just need to touch the boot lid on my Kodiaq when it’s opening for it to stop, then it will close again.

Same as if it is closing. Any slight touch and it stops then opens again.

I have heard of something called " Helicopter tape " that mountain bikers cover the frames with to stop damage! don't know if it helps.

Or as was mentioned the plastic door protectors if you can get it in a long length.

As regards kids or adults getting trapped between the door and a wall ! just have to use common sense and be carefull.

5 hours ago, Gomezz said:

I have heard of something called " Helicopter tape " that mountain bikers cover the frames with to stop damage! don't know if it helps.

Or as was mentioned the plastic door protectors if you can get it in a long length.

As regards kids or adults getting trapped between the door and a wall ! just have to use common sense and be carefull.

 

Common sense?  If the boot had 'warning, this bootlid is powered' then I'd have thought twice about opening it, but I didn't even realise the bootlid was powered on the model I was looking at. You could say a lack of common sense on whoever parked the car but then are we saying we can't reverse in to a parking bay with a powered bootlid car?  I think it's a design issue - these things need to stop as soon as any resistance is detected. Some sort of proximity sensor may answer the OP's fears.

 

It doesn't take much resistance to stop the bootlid on the car I bought, but in the showroom I'm guessing it was due to the angle of the opening lid. There was nothing resisting against the surface of the bootlid, rather I was trapped against the wall and it was the bottom edge of the lid against my chest - I guess there wasn't enough resistance for it to auto stop.

 

Have to agree with the OP - these things can be bloody dangerous, just lucky I was able to reach the open/close button on the underside of the lid. To be honest, lucky it was my chest and not my chin that was trapped / being forced backwards.

 

Edit: I seem to remember yonks ago I was looking at a Honda Accord estate ( might have been back in 2004? ) which was the first car I saw with a powered tailgait. When it opened a warning buzzer sounded, just like a lorry reversing, so at least you knew something was happening. The salesman said the downside was he'd been going to the airport in the wee early hours of the morning and the bootlid woke up his neighbours!

Edited 5 February, 20206 yr by Guest

My previous car a top of the range but completely rubbish Kia Sportage with every available extra had the electric tailgate.

Opening - BEEP BEEP BEEP, closing BEEP BEEP BEEP.

I decided I can (easily) do without this "feature". If I open the boot lid I know not to open it if anything too close. Got rid of my "Opening Anxiety" completely. 😁