Trunk won’t close

Idiocracy creeps up slowly.

In the olden days when someone's trunk wouldn't close they'd grab some cord, string, bungee, you know, any sort of rope-like item and lash the trunk to where it meets the bottom.

While it will not be a fully secure and locked trunk, it will allow you to exit your garage.

 

Take your hands, place them on the hatch, push down until it closes.

When the hatch has lost its memory for some reason(like when the battery is disconnected), the hatch needs to be closed manually the first time. After that it should operate as normal.

 

It will feel like you're fighting against the system but it's designed to be able to be done, just push it down and it'll probably work fine after

 

If manually forcing it closed (hearing those gears grind made me cringe every time) - check my post and see if you have the same issue. I never had a dead battery, but mine wouldn't' close anymore and I had to get the dealer to replace parts.

Rear powered door doesn't close

 

Mine did this the other day, however it wasn't open when I got to the car. I opened it, and when I hit the button to close it, it just beeps. I was stuck in the garage so I manually pushed the door down and used the button to cycle it open and closed, no issues since.

 

Sounds like you hit the "close and lock" button, which will beep at you until you walk away, at which point it will close the trunk then lock all the doors. If you hit the button to its left (without a picture of a lock) it will close immediately but not lock anything