Advice needed: Forscan mod for hard trunk button?

[bbulkow]

My #1 mod would be a "hard button" for the rear hatch. The soft button is hard to get to. My CRV has a hard button. I drove my CRV for a week and remembered how nice a hard button is.

The three buttons I would repurpose, in order of niceness, would be:

1) Center console parking lights. I use parking lights only so rarely (never in 6 months), don't need a dedicated button, not safety critical.
2) Driver arm "child window lock" button. Don't have kids, don't use the button, not safety critical. But also not accessible from the passenger, which is a minus.
3) left knee - traction control defeat. While this would be a real safety issue sometimes (on ice you need to defeat), I'm rarely in that situation, there is a button in the UI, and it's a big hard button.

All the other buttons I do actually use from time to time, or are real safety issues.

Are there FORSCAN mods to move the trunk open/close to any of these buttons?

Alternately, I can build a small dongle that attaches to ODB2. Is "open trunk" available there? I'd probably do it truly hardwired (and give up bluetooth monitoring) for security, but would have to think about it.

Advice?

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[WyldStallyn]

https://www.macheforum.com/site/threads/adding-an-inside-liftgate-power-switch.6560/post-183453

This is the only thread I recall reading about this topic. Not a Forscan mod but doesn’t look overly complicated.

 

[Jimrpa]

Parking light switch on the console? I’m unaware of any parking light switch on the console. Perhaps you mean the auto-park button?

 

[DYohn]

Am I the only sick bastard who reads that as "Foreskin"?

 

[bbulkow]

Parking light switch on the console? I’m unaware of any parking light switch on the console. Perhaps you mean the auto-park button?

TBH, I've never pressed it, but I know I don't have auto-park, so I can't imagine the button does that.

If that's available, EVEN BETTER

 

[HuntingPudel]

From the thread that @WyldStallyn mentioned. All I can think of now is Bill & Ted. ??

 

[bbulkow]

That's a hell of a thread; I can see I'm not the first for a long shot.

I did search the forums.... but thanks! I'll be off to install my own in a few weeks.

It appears the key is sourcing an appropriate button.

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