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ee101 Posted by Snowmobile [Email] (#686) [Profile/Gallery] (more from Snowmobile) on Tue, 6 Nov 2012 12:35:14 In Reply to: Re:, Siegfried, Tue, 6 Nov 2012 06:40:53 Members do not see ads below this line. - Help Keep This Site Online - Signup |
"electromechanical connections are the first things to fail"
I agree that tracing is the most thorough approach, but I also agree that sometimes the fastest approach is a swap when the parts are available and the work is easy.
I'm kind of bad, because I have 2 c900s with defunct central locking, and 3 central locking brains, and I've tried all 3 in both cars, and well, none of them work in either... so either all the brains are dead, or both cars have a wiring/connector/actuator fault... my swapping was basically useless, so I need to trace it now... but of course that would take more time and central locking is not critical, so it will have to wait (especially now as winter approaches)...
otoh, one c900 has inoperable windows, and with an opportunity to trade the switch module with an identical car headed to the junker, putting my module in that car, everything worked fine but the donor car's module wouldn't operate my sunroof... so without having to trace I at least know I have a good module - and the one that I put back into the donor car has a bad sunroof switch... only took a couple minutes and the results were reproducible... tracing a wiring fault can take a while... I still need to trace the wiring to fix it, but valuable information was obtained!
I wish more contacts in the c900 were plated (or better plated). The electrical stuff could have lasted better in these cars if they had been...
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