Steve Brookes
Moderator
...but re-newing my door membranes one of those necessary jobs that needed doing.
Over the last few weeks I've been trying to find out why my central locking was working intermittently. This meant I had to take take off the door panels to check out the locks, actuators and lock micro switches. Once off, there was clear evidence that others had been in there before and had continually taped up the membranes:
I checked out the price of original membranes which came in at around £25 each. By chance I saw a pair of membranes on ebay and bought them for £14. This proved to be false economy because they turned out to be little more than a polythene template that I had to try and glue on. So I subsequently bought the originals from my local Porsche centre. These are much thicker and self adhere. The difference in the quality of the original equipment and knock offs is quite obvious in the pic below:
Before fitting the new membranes I checked out all the locking parts of the door. This included removing the handles which were full of grime that had built up over 20 years:
So, they all got cleaned up and the microswitches checked before re-assembling:
Finally, the new membranes were fitted. I managed this on my own but would advise you get someone to help if you want to avoid getting the odd crease like I did [:-]
BTW the issue with my central locking was resolved by changing the central locking module under the dash [8|]
Over the last few weeks I've been trying to find out why my central locking was working intermittently. This meant I had to take take off the door panels to check out the locks, actuators and lock micro switches. Once off, there was clear evidence that others had been in there before and had continually taped up the membranes:
I checked out the price of original membranes which came in at around £25 each. By chance I saw a pair of membranes on ebay and bought them for £14. This proved to be false economy because they turned out to be little more than a polythene template that I had to try and glue on. So I subsequently bought the originals from my local Porsche centre. These are much thicker and self adhere. The difference in the quality of the original equipment and knock offs is quite obvious in the pic below:
Before fitting the new membranes I checked out all the locking parts of the door. This included removing the handles which were full of grime that had built up over 20 years:
So, they all got cleaned up and the microswitches checked before re-assembling:
Finally, the new membranes were fitted. I managed this on my own but would advise you get someone to help if you want to avoid getting the odd crease like I did [:-]
BTW the issue with my central locking was resolved by changing the central locking module under the dash [8|]
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