Mark Tompkins
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- 2016 Explorer XLT
I have this same issue. And I have a foot-operated lift gate. This is not just a minor annoyance, it is a safety issue. When I have my hands full with groceries walking toward the SUV, I swipe my foot, and the gate opens as designed. I then proceed to load the groceries into the cargo area (key FOB still in my pocket--WHY WOULDN'T IT BE??!!). Then the gate closes on my head. ALMOST EVERY TIME.Welcome to the Forum.
The forum has a very handy 'Search' feature members are urged to use to check for threads on various topics. Yours was merged with this one. Do you have the foot operated liftgate? If so it may have detected movement while you were loading. If not, take it to the dealer and have them check it out. If you have the foot activated option then perhaps wait to see if it happens again.
Peter
I am flabbergasted that FORD engineers have not addressed this issue with a software disable feature. I haven't found one yet, after many searches. I paid tens of thousands of dollars for this vehicle, and the only disable I have found is to disable the auto-open/close entirely. Surely somebody from FORD is listening, because I'm not the only one. To suggest that I first remove the FOB from my pocket before unloading my groceries to the cargo area is absurd--this totally voids the convenience of the foot-swipe lift-gate feature.
I hope someone has a fix for this other than putting duct tape over a sensor. This has been more than frustrating, and for those that say "Don't worry, the gate is so sensitive it will auto-reverse with the slightest bump," you don't know what it's like to hear that closing beep while you're unloading 7 bags at once: it freaks you the hell out. And I can assure you that it is not that sensitive. Scares me to think what would happen if my 5-year old were in the vicinity of this "sensitive" gate during auto-close "feature."
Thanks if you have suggestions.