Thanks for your responsses, everybody. A note of clarification: I didn't buy the car through MW, I bought it from a private seller and then they did...
Dave I was able to add another layer of foam pad on the closing plate to raise it up. I had to re-drill a couple screw holes to line up properly. But...
My standard solid state relay draws 5 ma. so only 0.07 watts of power. And the voltage drop on the load is far less than any mechanical relays so it...