I've got a chronic problem with my daily-driver 2001 MN6 coupe with 65k+ miles. The switches for the driver's side window and door lock fail on an intermittent basis. All the other switches in the cluster work without fail -- the driver's side switches for the passenger window and lock and the mirrors on both sides. The problem comes and goes on its own, but sometimes the failure occurs and won't resolve by itself.

It doesn't take a rocket scientist to figure out that the driver's door gets opened and closed many, many more times for every time the passenger door is opened and closed and that that is the root cause of the problem -- somehow the opening/closing of the driver's side door is causing the problem.

I've had the problem addressed by the local shop that does regular maintenance and it will go away for a while, but it always comes back (most recently yesterday while I had a foreign-car-snob passenger to whom I was bragging about the high quality of the Bowling Green plant's products -- aaaarrrrggghhh!). So here are the questions:

- Have other people encountered this problem?
- Is there a tutorial on the easiest/quickest way to get the inner door panel off?
- Is there a tutorial on fixing the problem?
- Once I get the door panel off, is there something I can do to keep the problem from recurring?

Your help will be much appreciated.

 

I found this thread:

http://forums.corvetteforum.com/show...2&forum_id=103

... I'll work from there ...