A warning?

[wai]

I fitted one of those wide angle lenses that you apply to the inside of the rear window of vans to help with some rearward visibility to my Caddy Maxi Life.

I opened up the back, climbed in and then pulled the tailgate down. I applied the lens but then discovered there was no way to open the tailgate from the inside!

Fortunately I did not have a cargo barrier otherwise I would have been locked in. I had to fold the third row of seats down, climb over it, then fold one half of the second row before opening one of the side doors and getting out.

I have checked things but cannot find any internal lock release mechanism (an oversight).

Anyhow, this is just to alert people to this as if I had a cargo barrier, I would have been in a spot of bother. This is particularly important if there are children who are likely to get in and lock themselves in. I could have triggered the alarm, only no one would have been able to see me inside the back because of the dark tinted windows.

A couple of years ago, some children were killed after climbing into a station wagon with a cargo barrier and locking themselves in.