Rear hatch won’t open
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I think they are both on the same fuse, underhood, #10. Try swapping it with a known good fuse of the same amperage.
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You said the fuses seem good. Now fuse #10 is good. Is this by visual inspection, or testing?
It will be difficult for us to help you without more info, you addressed less than half of donbrew's questions. Help us to help you.
It will be difficult for us to help you without more info, you addressed less than half of donbrew's questions. Help us to help you.
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Ok, all I can offer is this, taken from this great how-to by truckette https://www.chevyhhr.net/forums/how-...rmation-59520/
Fifth,some other observations about the fuse box.
A) IT IS POSSIBLE TO INSTALL SOME OF THE RELAYS IN THE FUSE BOX BACKWARDS! Some of the relays have 4 pins in a symmetrical pattern. Don't do this, but if you unplug the relay and turn it 180 degrees in yaw, you can sometimes plug it right back in to the socket. The 4 pins are not in the center of the bottom of the relay, so sometimes another fuse or relay will block you from installing the relay the wrong way around. However, some of the relays have enough free space around them that they can be installed backwards. They could have molded a recess for the base of the relay into the fuse box to give you a hint, but they didn't. They could have arranged the relay pinout so it wouldn't matter... but Opel isn't that clever. (Note that the 5-pin relays don't have this problem.)
In the car I worked on, it is correct for some of the relays with the same part number to be installed 180 degrees out from the others.
Suggestion: When your HHR is running right, make a sketch or take a picture of how all the relays are arranged in your fuse box. That way, if you or somebody else scrambles the relays later, you can get back to a working configuration.
Fifth,some other observations about the fuse box.
A) IT IS POSSIBLE TO INSTALL SOME OF THE RELAYS IN THE FUSE BOX BACKWARDS! Some of the relays have 4 pins in a symmetrical pattern. Don't do this, but if you unplug the relay and turn it 180 degrees in yaw, you can sometimes plug it right back in to the socket. The 4 pins are not in the center of the bottom of the relay, so sometimes another fuse or relay will block you from installing the relay the wrong way around. However, some of the relays have enough free space around them that they can be installed backwards. They could have molded a recess for the base of the relay into the fuse box to give you a hint, but they didn't. They could have arranged the relay pinout so it wouldn't matter... but Opel isn't that clever. (Note that the 5-pin relays don't have this problem.)
In the car I worked on, it is correct for some of the relays with the same part number to be installed 180 degrees out from the others.
Suggestion: When your HHR is running right, make a sketch or take a picture of how all the relays are arranged in your fuse box. That way, if you or somebody else scrambles the relays later, you can get back to a working configuration.
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