Any thoughts on fixing this. The door ajar light stays on all the time. this the push switch or was.

 

First, looks like something is hitting the door jam to cause the damage to the mounting rivets. What does the inside of the door look like?

Second you will need to purchase a switch to install yours is not fixable

If you look inside the rear wheel well (near where the switch is located) there is a steel plate fasten to the inner wheel well with (4) hex head screws.

Remove plate and you will have access to the wire connection on the switch, remove wires, the unscrew switch with wrench on door jam side. Install new switch, reconnect wires, and re-install access plate



The switches are available. Note once you have installed the new switch, use a pair of pliers and make sure the switch is all the way pulled out, then close door. These switches are “self” setting of depth

 

Good advice from walleyfisher. A good switch has a 'plunger' sticking out of the hole in the nut. The nut is part of the switch. Normally you can just take a wrench and back the nut out and the entire switch comes with it, along with enough wire to replace the switch and get everything working again. You'll need to do some repair to the switch mounting plate, install a new switch, and I'll bet you'll be good to go.

If you look at this link, it's likely the switch you need and you'll also be able to see what the entire switch looks like. https://willcoxcorvette.com/catalogs...or+ajar+switch

Good luck! Paul

 

Unfortunately this goes far beyond just replacing with a new door switch. This is a common area that gets damaged over time. I did this same repair on one of my vettes two years ago.

A new nut plate will need to be riveted into the fiberglass. But before that can happen you have to remove the old nut plate by drilling the old rivets out. Access is by the panel in front of the rear wheel as Walleyfisher indicated. Then you need to repair the fiberglass. You should then replace the old nut plate and rivet a new nut plate behind the fiberglass. You can get the nut plates from any corvette supplier. They are cheap.

If you just tried to replace the switch, it would just break through the fiberglass when you close the door.

The easiest way to replace the nut plate is by tying a string to a coffee stirrer, sliding the nut plate onto the string and looping the string through the hole in the plate, then sticking the stirrer through the access panel and into the hole where the switch goes. Pull the stirrer and string through the hole in the door jamb until the plate is flush behind the fiberglass that you repaired. Line up the rivet holes, rivet one, remove the string, rivet the second hole and you can then run the wire through the hole, attach your new switch. Then you can screw the switch into the plate. One tip, when you run your wire through the hole, twist the wire a few times counter clockwise, that way when you screw your switch into the hole it will unwind the wire and place less stress on the wires and also make it easier to screw in and less chance it will back out the switch.

It can get a little fiddly and you will need to make some small adjustments with a very thin screwdriver to line up the plate behind the glass but I think it took me about 8 minutes to do everything I described above after the glass was repaired.

Look up a thread search on how to do these, they are out there in the tech section maybe. Pictures are better then text, I just don’t have pics of my repair I did.

Good luck

 

Thanks for the help on this, now that I know what to do I am adding it to my list of fixes lol

 

You can put a lump of modeling clay over the damaged switch...then close the door.
Open the door and measurethe thickness of the compressed clay.
Then you will have an idea as to why the switch-plunger is smashed.

 

When is a door not a door?
When it's a jar...