Tyre well courtesy light, and leaky Tailgate.

[Jamie]

1 Folks....the coutesy light which comes on in the tyre well on the tourer....how is it activated and switched off? cant seem to see a switch.

2 My tailgate is leaking a little onto the pull out luggage cover....it seems to be running in around the plastic shield over the boot hinges.....both sides, anyone else had this?

[JohnDotCom]

Answer to Q2. Yes this has just started happening on mine, leaves a nasty stain mark, and its not 2 years old yet. Will be looking into it this weekend, will post if any joy.....unless someone knows.....

[Simon]

I know on the saloons that water ingress from around the light clusters due to (poorly designed?) sealing gaskets causes muchos water in the boot (I know - it happend to me.)

I'd check here as the first port of call as it would make sense that Rover would use the same sealing technique for both variants.

Other than that... It could be a case of sitting in the boot while someone else starts hosing down the outside of the car...

[Mike]

Jamie,

Have a look here:

http://forums.mg-rover.org/showthread.php?t=27987 and here

http://forums.mg-rover.org/showthread.php?t=129004

hth

Mike

[DeeCee]

Originally Posted by Biker in a suit

1 Folks....the coutesy light which comes on in the tyre well on the tourer....how is it activated and switched off? cant seem to see a switch.

2 My tailgate is leaking a little onto the pull out luggage cover....it seems to be running in around the plastic shield over the boot hinges.....both sides, anyone else had this?

Courtesy light controlled by BCU (Body Control Unit) from the same circuit which supplies interior lights..... Any door open, interior lights on, under cover light on.

Have the same problem with my Tourer. Found in my case it was the Glass Hatch, maybe repositioning would fix it. I have cured mine by cleaning the sealing rubber with some silicon based fluid, this lubricates and makes the sealing rubber very supple. Have used, rubber lubricant, tyre wetting cleaner... the stuff that makes the tyres shine also used Ambersil silicone spray. I put it on and then clean it all off so it is not sticky, problem goes away for a month or two.

[Christopher]

Similar but separate question - where are the 'door switches' that sense when any of the 4 doors are opened? There doesn't appear to be a traditional type switch anywhere - are they inside the door frames? do they use solid-state devices (sensors)?

[DeeCee]

Not sure, never looked for them, at a guess they will be built into the locks somewhere.

[Kandyman]

Theses are the door switches, cant see where they fitted to

[DeeCee]

Originally Posted by Kandyman

Theses are the door switches, cant see where they fitted to

Looks like the normal earthing type slide switch, never seen them on my car.
Looking at the Rave manual, cannot see any door earth type switch inputs on the BCU. Can see the bonnet and boot switches ok.

[Christopher]

Originally Posted by Kandyman

Theses are the door switches, cant see where they fitted to

I think those are wrongly advertised as fitting the 75 on ebay Kandyman ...