Courtesy door pin removal
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Courtesy door pin removal
Hi all,
87 C4 with the dreaded courtesy module failure. From a post here the easiest fix is to jumper between the white wire on the courtesy door pin and the white wire going to the footwell light.
So I can’t tell what white wire actually connects to the door pin. My thought process is if I can remove the the door pin and then pull and wiggle the white wire I can see it in the interior and grab it there.
My question is the switch. Looking at it, it looks like it would unscrew but what happens then? What is on the other side? I don’t want to try removing it and have some interior nut fall into some deep dark recess where I will never be able to get it.
How involved is removing that door switch OR is there an easy way to find the proper white wire from that switch under the drivers kick panel?
Thanks!
Glenn
87 C4 with the dreaded courtesy module failure. From a post here the easiest fix is to jumper between the white wire on the courtesy door pin and the white wire going to the footwell light.
So I can’t tell what white wire actually connects to the door pin. My thought process is if I can remove the the door pin and then pull and wiggle the white wire I can see it in the interior and grab it there.
My question is the switch. Looking at it, it looks like it would unscrew but what happens then? What is on the other side? I don’t want to try removing it and have some interior nut fall into some deep dark recess where I will never be able to get it.
How involved is removing that door switch OR is there an easy way to find the proper white wire from that switch under the drivers kick panel?
Thanks!
Glenn
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I had my wife hold the multimeter on the negative battery terminal while I probed white wire. I did get connectivity and got excited but pressing the switch didn’t break it. As I sit down to watch the Super Bowl, I realize that I had the passenger door open. So if it is all the same ground circuit I may actually have had the correct wire but the other door pin was keeping the connection.
Tomorrow I will try that wire again but this time with the other door closed. Fingers crossed it was something that simple!
Thanks for the pin suggestion. I’ll give that a go if there is no joy with only one door open.
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Why don't you drop the passenger side hush panel (has the ctsy light init) find the timer, unplug the timer, and jumper the white wire (lights) and door pins together? The door-pin terminal has 2 wires in it, and over the years the wire colors change. They can be white, light blue, or yellow. The key is that there are two wires in a single cavity, these are the door pins. And there is only a single white wire which is the ctsy light circuit.
Don't mess with the pin switches at all.
Don't mess with the pin switches at all.
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So I finally got it. I had to use a coat hanger. I made a small "hook" on one end and then pushed the other end down until it exited from below. I pulled on that while my wife (who has much smaller hands than myself) guided the "hook" until it grabbed the connector. I just pulled it down.
Even then it was literally only about 1/4" or so below the carpeted part and jumping the A nd D terminals was still a treat. But, its done.
On to the next project!
Thanks for everyones input!
Even then it was literally only about 1/4" or so below the carpeted part and jumping the A nd D terminals was still a treat. But, its done.
On to the next project!
Thanks for everyones input!
