u/ComfortableHot6309

Passat B6 tailgate latch does not mechanically secure

I’m troubleshooting the tailgate latch on my Passat B6. The tailgate no longer stays latched.

I removed the latch and tested it with the electrical connector disconnected.

The main rotary catch can be rotated into what appears to be the fully locked position. There is a separate mechanical release lever with a visible return spring and two distinct positions. When I operate the release lever, the catch opens with essentially no force, which I assume is normal and is not the issue.

The actual problem is that when the release lever is NOT operated, the catch does not appear to be securely retained in the locked position. I can move the catch out of the locked position with very little force.

My understanding is that the latch should be mechanically fail-secure: with no electrical power and the release lever at rest, the locking pawl should firmly retain the rotary catch. Electrical actuation should only release it.

So my question is: What should mechanically retain the rotary catch in the locked position on a Passat B6 tailgate latch, and what component is likely worn, broken, or incorrectly positioned if it releases with minimal force even though the release lever is at rest?

I’m particularly interested in a photo/diagram of the correct internal arrangement of the pawl, catch and spring.

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Hypothesis: What if almost the entire present-day story in Destroyer is Erin's dying fantasy?

I think Destroyer may be deliberately misleading us about what actually happens in the present-day timeline.

My theory is that Erin never actually investigates the murder, follows the trail to Silas, or kills Silas. Almost everything we see outside her contact with her colleagues may be a fantasy/reconstruction happening in her mind while she is sitting and dying in her car.

A few details make me wonder about this:

- We never clearly see the dead man's face. Erin identifies him as Silas, but the film never gives us an objective confirmation that the corpse is actually him.

- Erin is strangely certain that she knows who killed him, without seeming concerned about how she could possibly know this or how her explanation would stand up to questioning.

- The revolver creates a chronology problem. The gun associated with the body is already part of the evidence/stash when Erin encounters it. Yet the same revolver appears to be the weapon she uses to kill Silas. This creates a strange loop: the weapon is already “there” as evidence before she could have plausibly obtained it through the investigation, suggesting the timeline may be constructed rather than literal.

- The $100 bill and letter may also be fabricated by Erin. My interpretation is that the $100 wasn't actually sent to her by Silas. She takes the $100 from her own stash and constructs/fabricates the story of the letter, creating the trigger for the investigation in her mind. Her interactions with her ex and daughter, as well as the money itself, could be real as well, which would also support the idea that the dyed bill is genuine evidence of her real-world actions bleeding into the fantasy.

- More radically, the entire trail Erin follows may be part of the dream. The people she tracks down, the clues she discovers, the gun dealer, the connection to Silas, and ultimately the confrontation with Silas could all be Erin mentally constructing a coherent story from her guilt, memories and desire for revenge.

- The scenes involving her actual colleagues are different. Those may be the only present-day events that are objectively happening. Everything else could be Erin's subjective reconstruction while she sits in the car.

- The final confrontation with Silas therefore becomes the culmination of her fantasy: after 17 years of guilt over the failed robbery and Chris's death, she finally gets the ending she wants—she finds Silas and kills him.

This would mean the film has two different realities:

Objective reality: Erin is wounded/dying in her car, interacting with her colleagues and experiencing fragments of memory.

Subjective reality: Her mind constructs an entire investigation in which she discovers that Silas has returned, follows the trail, finds him, confronts him and finally kills him.

And importantly, the film never gives us the objective evidence needed to distinguish the two. We don't get a clear identification of the corpse, the revolver's chronology doesn't cleanly work, and the supposed contact from Silas can itself be fabricated.

So my theory is not simply that the final confrontation is imagined.

The investigation itself is the dream.

Erin's mind is essentially giving her one final chance to rewrite the past: instead of being the cop who failed, lost Chris and let Silas escape, she gets to be the person who finally tracks him down and kills him.

The question is whether this is intentional ambiguity from Karyn Kusama, or whether I'm interpreting inconsistencies in the film as clues to a much larger subjective-reality twist.

What do you think?

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