Contents: Removal 🠛 Installation 🠛
Removal
- Disconnect the cable from the negative battery terminal.
- Remove the rear window wiper.
- To access the trim mounting screws, remove the fog light covers
- Remove the screws securing the luggage compartment door trim.
- Remove the soundproofing film.
- Remove the windshield wiper mechanism.
- Disconnect all electrical connectors from the tailgate and remove the windshield washer fluid supply pipe.
- Disconnect the electrical connector from the third brake light.
- Disconnect the electrical connectors from the rear window defroster.
- Attach a thin 60 mm long cord to the windshield heater wire and a 2 m long cord to the windshield washer fluid supply pipe.
- Remove the two rubber seals from the tailgate.
- Using the cords, pull the heater wire and the windshield washer fluid supply tube out of the tailgate, then untie the cord and leave it in the door.
- Remove the seal attached to the roof of the vehicle.
- Moving towards the rear of the vehicle, remove the trim clips
- Unlock and remove the door support posts in the open position.
- Close the trunk door.
- Remove two bolts securing each door hinge.
- Open and remove the tailgate from the vehicle.
Installation
- Installation is carried out in the reverse order of removal.
- Adjusting the clearances of the tailgate
- Install the tailgate on the vehicle, place two feeler gauges under each hinge, secure the hinges with bolts and close the door.
- Check the gaps between the door and the roof. The door should be located 1.2-4 mm below the roof, otherwise put spacers of the appropriate thickness under the hinges.
- Check the gaps between the door and the wings, which should be 5±1 mm and, if necessary, adjust them by loosening or tightening the locking pins.
Fig. 13.20. Glass: 1 - side front glass; 2 - side rear window; 3 - fixed glass; 4 - sealing of fixed glass; 5 - rear window; 6 - front triangular glass; 7 - seal of the front triangular glass; 8 - windshield seal; 9 - windshield; 10 - internal and external glass seals; 11 - glass frame seal; 12 - door seal; 13 - outer seal of glass frame; 14 - rear window seal
Fig. 13.21. Removing the luggage compartment door trim: 1 - screw for fastening the fog light cover; 2 - door trim fastening screw
Fig. 13.22. Location of the screws for fastening the luggage compartment door trim
Fig. 13.23. Location of bolts (3) for fastening the tailgate hinges
Fig. 13.24. Removing the luggage compartment door: 1 - decorative overlay; 2 - gas-filled support strut for the luggage compartment door in the open position