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Any early Mach E owners that have hands free lift gate use a touch less car wash? I’m always worried about it getting a false signal to open during a wash.
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I can only report that mine does not open when I spray it down or wash under the rear bumper. Since I wash using my paws, I touch more. ??
 
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I can only report that mine does not open when I spray it down or wash under the rear bumper. Since I wash using my paws, I touch more. ??
I have only hand washed my car since new and have had the lift gate open a couple of occasions with the wand spraying in the area.
 

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Any early Mach E owners that have hands free lift gate use a touch less car wash? I’m always worried about it getting a false signal to open during a wash.
My first MME was a 21 GT, and it did pop open when I was spraying it down the first time, so I turned it off, never turned it back on (mainly because I looked like an idiot trying to kick it open ?)
 
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Mine does not open in the car wash. But I leave mine in drive while I sit there.
 


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no problem for me at touchless. car is off too
 

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Any early Mach E owners that have hands free lift gate use a touch less car wash? I’m always worried about it getting a false signal to open during a wash.
Sorry I have no advice on this. I am using either a coin op and spray down use my own mitts or do it at home with soap buckets and mits.
 

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Never, ever had a problem with my '21 and I washed it at touchless car washes almost always. Always in N since I don't use Auto Hold (otherwise, L). I would love to get the kick to open tailgate back on my '24.
 

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I've had no issues with the lift gate opening when I've used a touchless. I did get a lot of water in the liftgate channels though. When I opened the liftgate a couple of days after the wash, more than a fair amount of water came out! There was no water inside the car though.
 

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Mine is a 21 and is washed weekly in a car wash. I have never had the liftgate open during the wash.
 

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Any early Mach E owners that have hands free lift gate use a touch less car wash? I’m always worried about it getting a false signal to open during a wash.
I have used one once a month for 2 years and have never had a problem.
 

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Related to this, has anyone had issues with the charge port cover opening in a wash? I had it happen to me once, and since then I ask the car wash to tape it shut when they have tape.
 

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Never had a problem with it opening in a car wash. In fact, the damn thing only opens about once out of every thousand times I try to use it anyway, so out of self respect (I don't like looking like a fool repeatedly kicking at nothing under the rear of the car) I don't even bother to try it anymore.
 

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My first MME was a 21 GT, and it did pop open when I was spraying it down the first time, so I turned it off, never turned it back on (mainly because I looked like an idiot trying to lick it open ?)
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