i was wondering if my hatch motor was broken or could be fixed. when i shut the hatch the lock doesn't grab it and lock it down. to get it to lock i have to almost slam the hatch. it looks like the motor and lock have slid down a little bit. is there a way to loosen some bolts or something and re-ajust the position of the lock and motor?

 

The hatch pull down on these cars go bad a lot. Mine just went and my friend has replaced his twice already. You can get new ones or have yours rebuilt. What you described definitely sounds like a bad pull down motor. Its weird that it looks like it slid down. Did you hit it with something? Check the mounts and see if it is just a problem with its position before you spend money on anything.

 

Dont slam...

Look down into the hatch motor...specifically at the latch.

You'll see a small black contact switch on the left side, take your finger or small screwdriver and press on that switch. Your motor will engage, keep holding that switch til the hatch motor goes all the way down. Let it go. The motor should raise up to its full up position.

 

I too suspect the pull-down unit has powered down a bit. This happens when the striker-sensing switch (the switch slackett1 is describing) is pressed by the striker loop, yet the loop failed to latch correctly. When this happens the motor will power down until the loop comes off of the switch. At that point the motor will not power up or down until the pull-down unit has been re-set. The switch must be pressed for the motor to power down. Any time the switch is released mid-cycle the motor will stop and will not re-start until it is pressed again. Slackett1 correctly describes the procedure to use to re-set the pull-down motor. It's nice to have someone else on here giving the correct description of how to re-set the pull-down unit.

Lon