Door switch wire lost - help: SUCCESS

[Stewart Rix]

I've been getting a few false alarms recently which I've diagnosed to be the door (light) switches - in fact in the last couple of days I haven't even been able to arm the alarm without it going off and have had to resort to locking the doors using the key. So I changed the drivers door switch last night, but found the passenger door switch to be minus its wire - I'm guessing that the wire is moving about in the door pillar and when it touches bodywork makes the alarm assume the door has been opened. My question then, is how the heck to I find or get to the wire? I've shone a torch through the hole in the pillar where the switch goes and the gap around the check strap, but can't see it.

 

[Guards Red]

I'd suggest making a hook from a very thin piece of wire and see what you can hook up. Some fiddling about might see it come up...I've had some success with this method. Good luck.

 

[Mark Elder]

I might be wrong about this but from memory, once you have removed the plastic (carpet covered) panel to the left of the passenger's feet you can get at the other end of the wires that go into the A pillar (and therefore you may be able to find the switch wire and push it back up the pillar). The plastic panel comes out by removing the big (inch across) black plastic "screw" that it hidden behind the carpet approximately where the passenger's left toes go.

 

[Stewart Rix]

Success! I managed to find the door switch wire in the door pillar. In case anyone has a similar problem, the wire is bundled with the main loom feed that goes through the rubber gaiter into the door. Just before the loom leaves the door pillar the single brown wire (sheathed by loose fitting black plastic) for the door switch peels off. I managed to get a finger into the frame through the hole with the loom and guide the wire back to the switch hole where I hooked it out. It took a while to figure out, but boy, what a great sense of satisfaction when I'd cracked it. The wire is now soldered in place rather than just crimped as it was before. The alarm has stopped playing up as well, so fingers crossed, that was indeed the cause of the false alarms.