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Tailgate question
Posted: 15 Oct 2010, 20:18
by dansimpson
Is the tailgate supposed to have a handle to open it from the inside?
Mine just has the door card covering it, so can only be opened from outside.
Re: Tailgate question
Posted: 15 Oct 2010, 20:22
by BOXY
Yep outside only . Why would you want to open it from the inside?
Re: Tailgate question
Posted: 15 Oct 2010, 20:23
by VWCamperfan
Only opens from outside. I can remember someone on here a fey years ago fitting something to theirs so it cold be opened from the inside though.
Re: Tailgate question
Posted: 15 Oct 2010, 20:26
by simony
brickwerks do one
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Tailgate Latch with interior opening mechanism
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Allows the tailgate to be opened from the inside of the vehicle.
Replaces the original latch mechanism but has a lever to operate the latch from the inside of the vehicle.
Will require a hole cutting in your interior panel on the tailgate.
VW Part No.: 253 829 211
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Re: Tailgate question
Posted: 15 Oct 2010, 20:32
by dansimpson
Cheers people, missus paranoid - "how do we (?) get out of rear door if we need too??"
Re: Tailgate question
Posted: 15 Oct 2010, 20:38
by vanwesty
Got one on my vanagon US import fitted from new they were mandatory in some states it says in the manual that came with the van.
Re: Tailgate question
Posted: 15 Oct 2010, 22:43
by kevtherev
dansimpson wrote:Cheers people, missus paranoid - "how do we (?) get out of rear door if we need too??"
then sleep the other way round if your paranoid
Re: Tailgate question
Posted: 15 Oct 2010, 23:35
by Plasticman
kevtherev wrote:dansimpson wrote:Cheers people, missus paranoid - "how do we (?) get out of rear door if we need too??"
then sleep the other way round if your paranoid
Which way would give quickest exit?
mike
Re: Tailgate question
Posted: 16 Oct 2010, 00:12
by dansimpson
kevtherev wrote:dansimpson wrote:Cheers people, missus paranoid - "how do we (?) get out of rear door if we need too??"
then sleep the other way round if your paranoid
Oh don't! We had this "discussion" on our first night in the van - missus insists head to tailgate, I wanted feet to tailgate. I lost! So had to take out rear shelf storage to stop me banging head against it during night
So now I have no excuse
Except swmbo wants tailgate to open from inside, now if we'd slept other way, we'd still have the shelf and I wouldnt need an inside handle
Re: Tailgate question
Posted: 16 Oct 2010, 07:53
by Mocki
well, if you are sleeping the wrong way round, with your head to the tailgate, and you are fitting a escape handle to the tailgate, youhad better also be carrying one of these

or you'll injury your head when you fall out
Re: Tailgate question
Posted: 16 Oct 2010, 09:03
by 1664
Mocki wrote:you are sleeping the right way round, with your head to the tailgate
I've corrected that for you as you've obviously got confused
Re: Tailgate question
Posted: 16 Oct 2010, 13:23
by davidharvey
1664 wrote:Mocki wrote:you are sleeping the right way round, with your head to the tailgate
I've corrected that for you as you've obviously got confused
I have added a poll.............
https://club8090.co.uk/forum/viewtopic.php?f=10&t=76364
Re: Tailgate question
Posted: 16 Oct 2010, 21:44
by dansimpson
Maybe I should just sleep in the hightop? or do what we used to in our old delivery LT, across the front seats, but then do I sleep head to offside or nearside, and if its LHD do i sleep on the opposite side???
To many options, more red wine required during assessment period
Re: Tailgate question
Posted: 16 Oct 2010, 22:19
by Plasticman
Best resort to the floor then mate
m