Thread: What happened to your D3/D4 today?

Originally Posted by Naps

Pre-emptively installed a release cable attached to the lock mechanism for the rear top tailgate. Just in case the actuator fails which would be a right pain given that the back of the D4 is fitted out with drawers and fridge that would prevent me from peeling off the inner lining to try to manually open. Followed the guide provided by James and Scott previously....worked a treat :-) Hopefully will never need it but good to have a backup.
Naps

Where can I find the guide?

Not today's news but Saturday's. The new upper tailgate struts arrived Friday afternoon so installed them Saturday when camping.

Today the D3 returned us from another weekend's camping.

Originally Posted by John_D4

Where can I find the guide?

Hi John, I followed the detail provided by James (sctsprin) and Scott (LRD414) on page 6 of this informative post Manual tailgate release D3. Scott has produced a very informative PDF guide that is attached at the bottom of his post. There are a variety of approaches that have been used to mitigate the risk of being locked out of your D4 rear compartment when you have the space packed with drawers etc behind a cargo barrier. I like this particular solution because it takes the actuator and connecting cable completely out of the equation... and I have ordered a spare actuator just in case it fails when we are out bush... as the bypass cable is only a make shift release mechanism, and not something you would want to have to rely upon for too long. Swapping out the actuator looks to be pretty straight forward if you had to :-)
Cheers
Naps

Originally Posted by John_D4

Where can I find the guide?

Here:-

Manual tailgate release D3

post #68

There are other of approaches on the net.

Originally Posted by John_D4

Where can I find the guide?

Here: Manual tailgate release D3

although I think Scott has an updated version either in his build thread and/or on his website :
https://scotthumphris4.wixsite.com/t...over-discovery

David

Fitted Akebono pads front and rear plus replaced the rear rotors with RDA. All feels same as original so far.

Bought pads from RockAuto in the US. Pretty quick and very well priced. Also took the excellent tip (DiscoJeffster I think) to buy wiper blades at the same time. SO cheap

Going off to post a few questions about trolley jacks now. Would have made the job a bit easier

David

I put my fog lights on for the 2nd time this week in the morning traffic, due to the fog we are having, highly unusual in BNE.

Fasteners arrived so I finished bolting in my fridge mount and installing fridge for a trip to Yunta this weekend.



Apologies for the dark pic, it was late.




With that finished, loaded up, hitched hybrid and went inside. Hitting the road about 10am