Hi

Got to replace the electrical connection blocks between the main body and the door. My garage supplied a new door connector block and wires although not as many as are on the car. But need to source and replace the main block on the car body.

Will look on Utube as to how the interior plastic comes out of the Rooster to reveal the existing cables  and block etc.

But has anyone done this? Far easier to ask someone who's been through it already and the best place to source bits.

 

Thanks

John

On 16/02/2022 at 11:03, jled said:

My garage supplied a new door connector block and wires although not as many as are on the car.

I would say they supplied the wrong door loom then. There are many options.

I have done this. The best way to order the correct door loom is to use the number on the white label on your current door loom, that is the VW Part Number.  To get to that you remove the elbow rest (screws), click off the door card, remove the plastic door liner (I just pulled mine back as much as I needed to access), drill the rivets off the speaker to remove that.
Then it is pretty obvious and as said the part number will be on your current loom. I remember I was driving round for a couple of weeks with all that removed, using a pair of mole grips on the cable to open the door, while I waited for the replacement loom to turn up. You need 4 large pop-rivets when replacing the speaker.

Just re-read your message. I replaced the door side.    Are you writing about the main car side ?   Sorry I have not done that side but it would not surprise me once you start exposing things you will find a part number written on what you currently have.

I think that may be able to come out outwards, rather than having to be got at from inside the cabin (from mk1 Fabia experience).

I was pleasantly surprised to find - for once - that there was even a few (2 or 3?) inches of slack in the cabling behind it.

 

I don't really understand why it should be able to come out that way, 'cos it wouldn't be installed that way, but I distinctly remember doing it. 

I even took pics, apparently. Different arrangement on the mk1 Fabia though, four separate male connectors within the overall black 'carrier', which - unlike yours - appears to itself have to be inserted from the outside.  So on the Fabia it looks like the (4 individual) loom connectors get posted out through the hole, clipped into the back of the carrier and then that clipped into the hole from outside inwards.

 

Why the need to replace the male conn?

Corrosion (some evidence at bottom of your pic) or pin breakage? Is there a problem with door function that is being attributed to pin corrosion/damage?

 

I'll try to look up a part number for you, since my Fabia info appears to be a bit irrelevant in hindsight.

Item 100 here, I think (on the right side anyway) LLLParts

Other side on this page: LLLParts, same conn.

The three pin/wire sizes appear to be helpfully listed in the 'note' column.