Galaxy Door Lock Strangeness

[wjfe]

After trawling through pages of door lock problems, I think I may have a unique one.

 

Car is an 04 1.9tdi.

 

when I press the remote key the drivers door does not unlock, All other door open fine, but not the drivers one.

 

Now for the strange bit, If I relock the car, unlock it, relock it and unlock it the drivers door unlocks correctly. Therefore the door will not open unless I unlock/relock three times. If I only try twice it will not work, and if I try four times it stays locked.

 

If I get a passenger to open the drivers door from inside the alarm goes off when I try to start the car, and the same thing happens if I open the door with the key!

 

Any ideas or suggestions would be greatly appreciated.

 

Thanks

 

Bill

[gregers]

i reckon its the old problem of broken/frayed wires in the rubber door gaitors,plenty of info about this on the forum

also look in the faqs in the tech section,in there are detailed instructions on repairing the wires.

[wjfe]

Cheers mate

 

I'll have a dig around over the weekend.

 

Bill

[wjfe]

Just a quick update

 

Pulled the rubber boot off the wire connector in the drivers door. Found two cables that were split (electric window cables) and the copper wire was showing, Put tape over those two.

 

There was one wire that had separated from the connector block thingy. The break was actually in the block (it looked like the metal had snapped somehow) I could see no way to pull out the spade connector from the block, so I used some tin foil and araldite.

 

All works OK now.

 

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