Window and Door - niggles

[Guest]

Hi all, had a couple of niggles recentrly and wondered if they were standard issue problems with easy fixes.

1. Occasionally central locking leaves drivers door handle pinned in the open (i.e. all ready pulled back as if you are opening the door) position. Couple of cycles won't release it, have to open door from inside. I presume a lack of lubrication somewhere ?

2. Drivers leccy window switch seems to have come slightly adrift from the control behind it. Doesn't feel fixed to it any more, though cannot remove from the switch housing. Still works but I have to line it up properly..

TIA !

Neal.

 

[Mark Elder]

On the door handle front, two of the cars I inspected on my slow hunt for a 993 had this problem - they were both fairly poorly maintained examples so I suspect that lubricating these is part of the annual service (or lack of)

 

[Steve Humphreys]

Neal

Sorry are you describing the window switch on the drivers side for the passenger window--if you are then it sounds like a bad connection at the back--the switch is self containing and has an interference fit witht he door---if it is loose this means that the hole that it is held in has gradually been distorted--if this is the case you may need to pull the switch out--pull slowly andpack it out with some vinyl or other material. If the switch is coming loose from the plastic surrouns--then you will need to buy a new switch--about £20 and easy to fit.

Steve

 

[Guest]

Hi Mark,

Sounds like might be a common one then. I'm supposed to have a full OPC service history, but it had a very quiet couple of years - I'll see if I can unearth some details about what to lube.

thanks

 

[Guest]

Steve, I'm describing the drivers switch for the drivers window (the only essential one... typical).

The switch is coming lose from the plastic surrounds, so it sounds like new switch time (or swap it with the other one).

ta

 

[Guest]

Ah have found an article on Renn about this - one of the pins that the switch rocks on had snapped - so replacement switch or a repair is necessary. Looks fairly straightforward if I don't manage to drop the wires down the door !

 

[Steve Humphreys]

Replacing the switch is fairly easy--just prise it from the door gently so as not to damage the hole that it sits in--the plug will just pull off the back and then repeat the exercise n replacing--it should take you 10 mins tops--once you have the replacement switch--there is a new one and a used on on ebay at the moment--otherwise any OPC or Indi will have them in stock.

Cheers

Steve