Originally Posted by
andyrover
This post was a lifesaver for me! I just experienced my first D3 failure, of the electric latches on the tailgate. It failed when closed and just made a whirring noise. I looked at Disco3.co.uk site and found many hilarious stories of similar situations to mine ("if one of my designers came to me with this, he would be put on toilet cleaning duties for a week!"), because it really is a bugger when it fails closed. You have to tear the inner tailgate apart, ignoring the considerable damage caused, to get to the workings described in this post. Once inside, I was aghast to find the words, "Made in Canada", and "FoMoCo" on the mechanism. To think the makers of the Space Shuttle manouvering arm could produce such a piece of **** was unbearable to an ex-pat. The lack of a manual override is also inexcusable... So I made sure I included one as described in this post for the next time, thanks!
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