Pauly, sound proofing my van and need to remove the tailgate door switch but tried using trim tool but seems tight. Does it just pop out of door card ?
Tailgate - opening from inside?
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Hi Pauly, many thanks for the info. A plug with enough wire to connect to the outside handle would be great. If that's a faff for you please what type of plug is it and which pins do I need to use? I'm also struggling to find the part numbers for the grey versions, any idea where best to find them?
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Seb
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Thanks for the help
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Seems the VW switch only comes in black whitch I feel would look a bit odd in an entirely light gray interior. So think I’ll get a switch like yours and mount it on the door card behind the wardrobe so out of sight but easy to get to.
Yes, the one I fitted was from a fiesta or something like that, where you have to put your hand in and press up against a membrane switch which stops it being opened when accidentally knocked
To help you to avoid wrong colour here are part numbers for a factory fitted black switchfrom a panel van:
Switch 7E5959551 (black)
Frame 7E0858099 (black)
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The OEM switch has 180 ohm resistor built in between pins 1 and 4 (switch doesn't short circuit but 180 ohms) but anything less than 370 ohms seemed to work.
In my panel van the switch was active (to open the tailgate) only when doors were unlocked as it seemed to be just parallel to outside switch. Couldn't open it if doors were locked by remote. I didn't verify it it was different if locked from drivers door.
Just an update as I had my hands on a van without tailgate switch inside (was not available as factory option anymore).
Surprise, surprise, connecting an OEM switch (with 180 ohm resistor) just parallel to outside handle doesn't do the trick - open the lock. The outside handle switch is "real" switch - a short-circuiting one. So I had to revert to an after-market solution - just a simple switch
.Makes me think that in the van with switch inside, there probably had to be a couple of additional wires running all the way to BCM just for this purpose
. Certainly a configuration management challenge at VW.EDIT: added cross-reference -
Retrofitting Tailgate Handle and Switch
I'm afraid it's sold to another member but I would agree it's relatively straight forward to swap the loom in a tailgate and it comes with the roof plug that sits above the rear wheel arch so it's plug and play The looms are model specific dependant on if you have rear wiper/camera etc but IIRC...
EDIT2 (3 years later): The BCM differentiates switches inside and outside by the 180 resistance on the wires. Thus internal switch needs to be coded as a) installed and b) enabled. This coding allows tailgate opening from inside even when the doors are locked.
