HF Solutions Boot Release

HF Solutions Boot Release

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Griffit

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364 posts

208 months

Friday 30th January 2015
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I decided I should have a remote boot release and won one in the auction at the Neil Garner Open Day in late 2014. How I managed for 8 years without one I'll never know. It is quite simply a must-have product for anyone still reaching into their car to open the boot! It might even have paid for itself by stopping me burning out two solenoids in that time by getting the release button caught in the dash whilst leaning into the car!

Install was fairly straightforward if a little fiddly via the panel behind the passenger seat and I was initially baffled by all of the Vaseline on the wiring until I realised it was TVR's version of waterproofing! Reading the instructions would have saved me cutting into the wrong wire for the power feed but that was my own fault and easily remedied. After an hour or so of work and having connected everything up (and liberally smeared with new Vaseline) everything worked perfectly straight away. biggrin

Wish I'd bought one years ago; not the most glamourous of mods I know but such a useful one!

(I'm not associated with HF, just a happy customer and David was good enough to unpack his car and code the unit at the event after I collected it before he went home - Thanks David thumbup.)

Griffit

Original Poster:

364 posts

208 months

Saturday 31st January 2015
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As Mr Jenks says, you get new 3 button remotes. The lock/unlock buttons are dual purpose on the Griff and the open boot button does exactly that. It's all remote, there's no reed switch behind the number plate, just an additional Meta box that receives the signal from the remotes that are coded to suit your existing alarm so you only need the one remote. Last time I saw the Carl Baker setup you retained original remote for doors and had a second one for the boot. These fobs are just under 40mm diameter and about 10mm thick.