Hello,

 

I've recently bought a Skoda Octavia 2002 and I'm struggling with driver's door (Ieft side, I live in Finland). Mirror heating & adjustment, red led light and remote central locking aren't working, everything else works fine. I've been reading previous topics for same issues and the problem is the door window motor multiplug-connector. Yesterday I opened mine and found out that there is a pin broken in the window motor's side (yellow connector). It is stuck at the wiring loom's side connector. The wiring loom side is easily repairable but what the heck I can do for the motor connector cos it's missing a pin. Can it be easily opened & re-soldered? Can I bypass that one pin with some jumper cable? Or do I have to just buy new motor? I attached a reference photo of same connector.

 I would try bypassing it with a wire soldered directly to the 'back end' of the broken pin, coming out through a hole in the casing, then spliced into the loom wire.

Probably a good idea to seal the hole in the casing around the wire with some silicone sealant to try to keep water out.

Edited 8 February, 20197 yr by Wino

58 minutes ago, Wino said:

 I would try bypassing it with a wire soldered directly to the 'back end' of the broken pin, coming out through a hole in the casing, then spliced into the loom wire.

Probably a good idea to seal the hole in the casing around the wire with some silicone sealant to try to keep water out.

Thanks for advice! I found an old thread where is well documented "OE-like" solution by just re-soldering a new pin into connector.

I think I will try that first. If unsuccessful then I will go "hard way" and put a direct wire through casing.

Okay, soldering into remains of the pin was impossible so hardwire-bypass did the trick. Now the working door revealed that the microswitch is defective, it was not caused by the connector. Are those microswitches cheaply available in Ebay, could somebody provide a link? Already tried to spray some WD-40 and play with the locking mechanism from outside, no help. :(

Wd40 isnt really going to help as its going to leave an oily conductive film.

Need electrical contact cleaner to have any real hope, as it evaporates off fully.

 

An entire lock mech assembly is about 20-30 quid on ebay, and theres loads of threads on changing them.

Doing just the switch takes a lot lot longer, but there is a guide  inc part numbers etc that bowders1 did.

Pictures may have been lost to photobucket's subscription ransom though :(