Rear door won’t function

[NickB]

No spares! Man from Merc recovery didn’t carry fuses and couldn’t find the blown fuse in any case. In view of the amazing ease of blowing the fuse (tailgate stopped opening when it touched a flimsy hedge at about 80 degrees open, and must have fused when I tried to close it manually), a knowledge of which fuse box and selection of useful fuses to keep as spares would be useful in the future.

 

[Brian Drought]

Just looked it up:

Fuse box in the co-driver's footwell on the A-pillar (Though that's for LHD cars, no idea if it's reversed)
Fuse# F311
Holder S2, Number 7
30A


It LOOKS like it shares it with the sliding door though and I'm guessing that was working fine?

"Electric sliding door, right/EASY-PACK tailgate"

 

[NickB]

Thanks for info. Sliding door was only working manually.

 

[Brian Drought]

OK cool, so we have the right fuse identified.

 

[Brian Drought]

If only you'd mentioned the side door was also without power. Would have obviously pointed to a fuse rather than a mechanical latch issue or a 'reset' type issue.

 

[Steve B]

Got my fuses from ebay, feeling covered now apart from the 50 amp main fuse

 

[NickB]

Just an addendum to this out of interest. The fuse blew again in Cambridge - this time I tried to open the tailgate whilst the side door was closing. The reason turned out to be that the merc dealer in France had replaced the blown fuse with a 15 amp one...