Tailgate adjustment

[craige101]

Can the rear tailgate on T6.1 be adjusted up and down

If so how

One side is lower

Thanks

 

[Deaky]

Yes by slacking off the spline bolts on the hinges, adjusting and re tightening.

 

[craige101]

Yes by slacking off the spline bolts on the hinges, adjusting and re tightening.

Can you explain which are the spline bolts

Are they inside the van or the ones accessed from the rear of the tailgate

Thanks

 

[Deaky]

Open the tailgate and look up

 

[craige101]

Open the tailgate and look up

That's brilliant

Do you know what the bolts from inside the van on the hinges adjust

Thanks

 

[craige101]

Open the tailgate and look up

Just looking at a hinge diagram and wouldn't the spline bolts (number 9) only adjust the tailgate forward and back not up and down?

 

[Squiz]

Hiya I retrofitted a tailgate to my t6 and had to guess where the hinges went as they weren’t supplied with mine, I found that adjusting using the bolts you can get to from inside the van copes with fine up and down adjustments. There is an official procedure where you disconnect the struts before you adjust the hinges, which I did, as the struts will try to force the tailgate up with the tailgate bolts loose.
I propped the tailgate open and removed the tailgate struts, closed tailgate, loosened the nuts inside the van allowing the tailgate to sink to its lowest point, then used wedges on the outside between bumper and tailgate bottom edge to eyeball it level. Once happy tighten up the hinges again, then lift up and prop tailgate to refit the struts. Hopefully goes without saying but the tailgate is v v v heavy and be very careful around it without the struts disconnected potentially lethal !!!
You will need a very deep 13 mm socket to fit the nuts on the hinges from inside, for reference there is a detailed barn door to tailgate thread with lots of helpful hints !
Good luck

 

[craige101]

Open the tailgate and look up

just looking at a hinge diagram and wouldnt the spline bolts only adjust the tailgate forward and back not up and down?

Hiya I retrofitted a tailgate to my t6 and had to guess where the hinges went as they weren’t supplied with mine, I found that adjusting using the bolts you can get to from inside the van copes with fine up and down adjustments. There is an official procedure where you disconnect the struts before you adjust the hinges, which I did, as the struts will try to force the tailgate up with the tailgate bolts loose.
I propped the tailgate open and removed the tailgate struts, closed tailgate, loosened the nuts inside the van allowing the tailgate to sink to its lowest point, then used wedges on the outside between bumper and tailgate bottom edge to eyeball it level. Once happy tighten up the hinges again, then lift up and prop tailgate to refit the struts. Hopefully goes without saying but the tailgate is v v v heavy and be very careful around it without the struts disconnected potentially lethal !!!
You will need a very deep 13 mm socket to fit the nuts on the hinges from inside, for reference there is a detailed barn door to tailgate thread with lots of helpful hints !
Good luck

Thank you

Only problem i have is the van is fully converted

Getting to the inside bolts look near impossible lol

 

[Squiz]

Ah you will need to dismantle it a bit, I was lucky as doing it with empty van ! Definitely worth doing though it would have driven me mad if it were not level, probably squeaky too if not sat equally on it’s stops

 

[craige101]

Ah you will need to dismantle it a bit, I was lucky as doing it with empty van ! Definitely worth doing though it would have driven me mad if it were not level, probably squeaky too if not sat equally on it’s stops

Wierd thing is it sits on all it's stops and the boot catch OK it's just not level across the bottom and catches my rear bumper protector

I wondered if it was the bumper out of line but that looks fine and the tailgate gaps are not the same side to side so that why it makes me think it that