Every time I’ve opened the boot, in the last couple of months, the handle has practically fallen off. So I’ve had to load and unload mostly through the side doors. Far from ideal!
Above, various images showing where the anchoring points were broken, or, as in the final two pics, still hanging on, just.
I’ve had a kit for fixing the broken handle of our Nissan Qashqai – it’s been falling apart for several months now – for quite a while now (a few weeks!).
But there hasn’t been a decent chance to do the job until today. And that’s only arisen because the car is currently undriveable!* Cars, eh!?
The kit, by X8R Ltd, is terrific. It was simple to install. And there’s an excellent video showing how to do the installation on YouTube. I watched that several times, to prepare.
As can be seen above, several of the parts that should have been holding the handle to the boot, or ‘tailgate’, have gone AWOL.
The new parts are much better than the little fragile and mostly broken parts they replace. And they are bonded – plastic to plastic – using the supplied acetone.
The hardest part of this job – which I did a week or two back – was to remove the internal boot trim panel. That still needs putting back.
Anyway… it’s now working better than ever before. It’s not just working. It’s a nicer tighter fit, with a lesser and much smoother action. Dead chuffed!
*Something in the drive-train is disintegrating, very noisily. Took it to Tyre Pros, locally (my normal garage is closed till Jan 5th), and they’ve told me it’s too dangerous to drive.