Raising tailgate by hand?

[Bwanapete]

I sometimes raise my tailgate by hand. Am I damaging anything by doing so? My brother had to repair his Tesla Model S liftgate and was told that he had caused his problem by lifting it by hand, forcing it against the motor. When I lift my tailgate I am forcing it against its motor.

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[The Weatherman]

I don’t do that very often, but I have lifted it by hand. What I have noticed is that it seems to relax the motor assist when I lift it faster than the motor itself does.

Short answer. I don’t think so.

There is a setting in the center stack to turn the auto lift off. If you’re going to do this more often then not, it’s probably a good idea to turn that off.

 

[RickLightning]

Not necessary.

Manual Close
You can close the tailgate manually when you lift the tailgate in a continuous motion. If you stop the tailgate motion, the lift-to-close feature engages and power closes the tailgate.

 

[Grease Lightning]

I will add that I often close mine by hand cause I forgot I bought a princess truck.

The only thing I have noticed it it seems the computer forgets it is closed sometimes and when I do use one of the various buttons to open it, it “latches” it first then you have to press again to have the motor release.

 

[Whistler]

I close mine by hand 99% of the time just from muscle memory. I never deactivated anything, it works either way.

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