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Drivers door not opening off the key fob

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HiMy drivers door won,t open or lock off the key fob, its ok with key thoughSomeone said its the plug connector at the bottom of the window, they get water in them, and the mirror has stopped workin now alsoIs it a new connector?Someone said they are a bugger to fix but didn,t tell me what the problems were/areAny help pleaseThanks

There's a big connector plug that goes into the door control unit. Water gets in and sits there and rusts the pins until they just crumble away.

As far as I know you have to change the whole control unit, which is fairly pricey and it's a lot to have it done at a stealer as quite a bit of labour.

It's changeable yourself, although it's quite fiddly getting the door apart etc. When mine went wrong I cut the control unit side of the connector open, identified the pins that were corroded and soldered a bypass in to crimp connectors straight into the wiring loom - then sealed it back up well! This wouldn't always be possible - depends on which pins are gone and how accessible they are.

Bad luck anyway... it's a complete pain caused by a considerable design flaw that still exists on current models. The VW Golf uses a similar control unit, but it's at a different angle inside the door and I don't think is suffers the same problem.

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