Guest Posted October 27, 2009 Report Share Posted October 27, 2009 Here's a good one. Yesterday evening I noticed that my alarm didn't bip on arming with the remote. After further investigation, I saw that closing the driver door didn't turn out the interior lights. At this point in time I have no: 1. No power windows 2. No door mirror power control, 3. No heated mirror on the driver side (no heater element in the mirror on the passenger one). 4. No puddle light/red light on the door outside. 5. No power to the central locking actuation on the door lock. 6. No sensing of the lock position. 7. No illumination of the door switches. The only warning that I got that something was up was the previous day I saw that the one-touch open wasn't active, so I reset that (full open, full close, attempt close when closed, one touch worked again). The speakers in the door are okay, they make sound fine. The auto-lock on driving attempts to lock the doors when driving off, and also attempts to lock when slowing down. Is there an earth cable that might be loose somewhere? Where do I start looking to fix this? I'm trying to see where I should start looking for the issues. I'll be putting the vag-com on this evening, but I've a feeling that'll just confirm no contact to the switches etc. At least I can lock the driver's door manually, but the alarm isn't arming as it can't see the door lock state. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
shark_90 Posted October 27, 2009 Report Share Posted October 27, 2009 It'll be the wiring in the door jamb. They go brittle and break, it's often the earth wire that goes. Looks like someone has put some scissors through it! You'll have to remove the door jamb wiring cover thing and resolder the wire back together, I'd put a little extra wire in and solder that to each end if I were you because actually soldering that wire back together is going to be near impossible. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chasdrury Posted October 27, 2009 Report Share Posted October 27, 2009 It'll be the wiring in the door jamb. They go brittle and break, it's often the earth wire that goes. Looks like someone has put some scissors through it!You'll have to remove the door jamb wiring cover thing and resolder the wire back together, I'd put a little extra wire in and solder that to each end if I were you because actually soldering that wire back together is going to be near impossible. and it's much easier to do in the dark and pouring rain! as we didn't find out doing my car! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted October 28, 2009 Report Share Posted October 28, 2009 I had to do that exact job on my Passat b5 estate back in the day. Not that easy, but there are harder jobs. I just have to wait for the weather to cooperate. Not having a Bentley manual to hand, and if it isn't obvious which wire it is, what's the colour coding for the earth wire through the drivers door? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted October 30, 2009 Report Share Posted October 30, 2009 Disassembly of the rubber concertina showed that the large brown cable had completely seperated. This was shortly followed by a complete removal of the door card to facilitate a bridging of this break using a similar guage cable from near the A-pillar connector to the door controller plug, through the concertina and following the loom path through the door. An hour's work, not fully completed as I have yet to completely seat the concertina on the door side of the concertina. I now have my power back to the door, and all functionality has been restored. On my list of to-do things is now to source a door loom, as I could see that there were other cables with split insulation there Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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