Another tailgate window problem

[Dezzie]

Hi all.

Got a year 2000 (V) Freelander station wagen (5 door) with the L series Diesel.

For the last month, the car has sat in the garage, as I couldn't afford to Tax, insure and MOT it all at once. Also, there's a bit of money to be spent on it. So to cut a long story short, it's sitting in a nice dry garage next to my house, until the funds become available to put it back on the road.

As it's been in there for a month, I decided it'd be a good idea to charge the battery, to save it from going dead flat and damaging the battery.

So, last night, unhooked the terminals, put the charger on, left it on over night, checked it this morning, and a nice big bright "FULLY CHARGED" L.E.D was glowing.

So, put the teminals back on and tightened them up. As I put the second terminal on, I heard the back window go down. I jumped into the drivers seat and turned the key to start the engine. Engine fired up no problem, first time.

I pressed the button to send the tailgate window back up. It went straight back up, no problems. As it reached the top, a long loud BEEEEEEEP came from the dash board, and the tailgate window went down again ! I tried again, and the same thing happened, and again, and the same thing happened.

I thought it was a 'fail safe', and maybe the car cover I had over the car was trapped in the back window, so I removed the car cover, but still, the window went up, beeped, and went down again. I tried it with the doors closed, with the doors open, I tried locking the car, then unlocking the car, I tried it with the engine running, and with the engine off. But still, the rear tailgate window goes down after the beep.

Can anyone explain please ? Is it something I'm doing wrong ? Or is it something to do with the battery being off / charged ?

Thanks for any replies ......................... Matt.

[kinky kirky]

I had this when I replaced my tailgate window motor. Each time the battery is disconnected you need to recalibrate the back window.

I can't remember exactly how to do it so check google but you have the engine running, hold the revs at 15000, press and hold the window button till it's all the way down and then do the window all the way up and that should be it.

Good luck