First week of Griffith ownership and need help.

[Mwalden]

Bought a Griffith last Friday and its been eventful, 6 hour train journey to pick up and 4 hour drive home, stopped
for fuel after 60 miles driving and would not restart, contacted the previous owner and he advised it sometimes did
this when hot. Left for 15 minutes and it restarted, have since completed the Immobiliser bypass and seems to be ok
now.
Second problem now and not rectified, today the boot switch would not open the boot, i suspect the solenoid has failed,
the previous owner showed me a little access hole near the lock in boot rubber but had a feel around and cannot open it,
tried to look behind numberplate but screws for this are just spinning, can anyone send me instructions on how to access
boot with solenoid motor not working?

[waggy]

Forum users would not put on here how to access boot as its a security issue.

Are you doing it correctly.. you must have ignition on when you press the boot button.

I tried to email you with access instructions but your profile is set so you cannot rec emails.

regards

Alex.

Edited by waggy on Friday 19th September 21:23

[lancepar]

Not helpful but on my 1992 Grif the boot button is live without the ignition being on. Must depend on the year or past owners mod'

[Mwalden]

Got in the boot with help from Waggy, I believe solenoid motor has gone
as connecting wires to a 12v battery and there is nothing.

[mk1fan]

Standard solenoid with plenty of choice. Absolutely nothing special about the ones TVR threw in the cars.

[Loubaruch]

A common problem with the boot release button is that it sticks in the ON position the solenoid ( actually a motor) then burns out quickly.

A simple circuit would prevent this:

https://www.bertram-hill.com/boot-motor-failure.ht...

[BritishTvr450]

Loubaruch said:

A common problem with the boot release button is that it sticks in the ON position the solenoid ( actually a motor) then burns out quickly.

A simple circuit would prevent this:

https://www.bertram-hill.com/boot-motor-failure.ht...

That’s a good mod.

Interesting that people had this sticking button problem. I’d never really heard of any issues and mine worked well.
My motor did eventually fail so I’m wondering if might might have been the button?
To be fair the solenoid was 20 years old.
Do you mean the button sticks in the pressed position and maintains contact or it returns to its off position but still stays live somehow.
I don’t think in thousands of operations I ever had to button not return back to its off position. Being a Chim the big boot was always used