misfit2009

Hopefully this will save someone some money, having dutifully ignored my boot release not working for years I finally decided to work out the problem-

Fuse was fine, voltage to motor was fine, mechanism inside release was fine - turned out it was the actual motor itself had become seized (presumably because it only ever moves for a few moments once every never)

The release unit is rebuildable, just be careful not to break it or force anything - if worst comes to the worst you need to replace it anyway.

So having removed the motor I connected it directly to a battery, and with a bit of percussive maintenance and a tweak with some pliers it started to turn, ran it for a few minutes in both directions to free up the brushes/bearings, reassembled the whole thing and my boot release now works again.

AZS2KDancer

Thanks, I thought it was just a mechanical connection.