Hands Free tail gate opening

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prt32
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Hey everyone, just taken delivery of the new j12 2022 Tekna. However the hand free tail gate opening only works like 1 out of 10 times.
It all works fine from the key fobs just not the hands free foot option.

Is this normal and just a rubbish option??

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Either a warranty claim or practice with the foot.

When I went to the Arriya launch even the presenter had problems at times getting it to actuate
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Sorry, I can’t help - it’s so hit and miss that I’ve stopped trying to get it to work.
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Post by cpt-spekkie »

AS far as i've heard you need to make a kicking motion with your foot around the middle of the bumper. Not a sideswipe, if you move from left to right of right to left, it will not detect it as consistently as a kick would.

So try a back to front kick and see if that improves your opening and closing.
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Thank you for replies, will give it another go with the kicking motion, fail that I will just give up.lol
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Tried the kicking motion - worked twice in succession , clearly I wasn’t doing it properly
Thanks cpt
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Post by hootintootin »

Kick motion under the bumper at middle line of car works for me every time. Very handy when hands are full of stuff for the boot.
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Post by cpt-spekkie »

Good to see it works for you MikeGC.
I also was clearly doing it wrong in the beginning, you learn every day :P
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Sorry for the delay to the replies. Thank you so much the kicking motion works a treat :)
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