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So, I leave the car...

 

Walk about forty feet away, smoke a cigarette and as I finish...

 

*click*

 

Boot opens :Confused: (I haven't touched the boot)

 

It's happened a few times now. I've opened the glove box and ensured the button there is not accidentally being pressed somehow, and even left it on the 'latch' so as not to disturb the button

 

But it still opens itself.

 

Not everyday, and once shut again it's fine :Confused:

 

Help?

 

2000 v reg 916 P2 Spider :thumbs:

Started doing this a month or so ago... Never happens with the engine running.

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:Confused: trying to remember if I've backed into anything

 

The light strip (beneath the boot) was slightly off level when we bought the car, but that was around August time

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Is there anything in the boot? If there is maybe something moves while you're driving :Confused:

 

Is the boot lock/catch bit dirty?

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I'll have a look before I go home

 

There is a bag of bits from Charlotte's boot in Aphrodite's which I haven't sorted out yet :o

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Close it with the key?

 

I haven't got clever keys with buttons :(

 

Well, I have, in a box with a new lock set... Which may well answer my question

 

However, for now, no buttons

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I'm guessing this is a phase 1 916??? There's been an issue with the rag tops in that the body control box above the glove box gets damp inside and creates a short circuit at the exact moment the interior light extinguishes and this trips the boot release, the symptoms sound right but it has had other causes too in the past.

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Mentioned it to himself, whose eyebrows shot up in wonder 'ahhhh' he said 'very plausible'

 

Cheers Smaky :thumbs:

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He has been far to busy with paid work to look at it. (got home at 23:30 last night due to doing a dual mesh fly wheel :Confused: ) I also have a wheel bearing issue where the bearings sound so bad they might be cubes :LOL: so one night this week I'll go to his from work,

 

I'll let you know when I do

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No he went into it, there were other things

 

I tend to drift when he talks about work :teehee:

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Should have news on the boot next week :thumbs: also found last night that it's two rear wheel bearings a little gone not one REALLY bad one :( hence the racket!

 

Luckily I had just had the wheel bearings done on Charlotte before she died, and still have them :)

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Should have news on the boot next week :thumbs: also found last night that it's two rear wheel bearings a little gone not one REALLY bad one :( hence the racket!

 

Luckily I had just had the wheel bearings done on Charlotte before she died, and still have them :)

 

if that#'s the case then swap the whole hub, it'll be unlikely for the bearins to come off in one piece.

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