Hi,
I fixed my power locks a few weeks back with help from information from this forum. I wanted to give back so I documented the fix, with pictures. It is tempoarily on my friends website, until I get my server up(probably next week). I think it is straight forward and complete but feedback is welcome, especially from others who have done this before. I still need to resize one of my pics as it is 1.2Mb, and I will do this shortly.

Fix Power Locks Link:

http://www.thewardrops.com/~mduggan/...ckTimerBox.htm

Let me know what you think.

Cheers,
Matthew

 

nice writeup, but I suggest a little more practice on soldering techniques before trying to do it on more stuff.. screwdrivers shouldn't be necessary. buy a roll of solder wick- they're about $1 at Rat Shack.

use it to remove the old solder, then simply re-flow the solder on the joints.

FYI, that's not the only connection that goes bad on the baord. it's the most often one I see, but not the only one. I've had some boards with at many as 10 bad joints in them.

 

Thanks, Great input. I will take all the input I get and add it to the tutorial as appropriate. I will wait until the end of the week to post an updated version(and remove the 1.2Mb jpeg).

Cheers,
Matthew

 

Also Matthew, in your write-up, you said,

I believe those are for the diagnostic port. Someone can correct me if I'm wrong, but that's what I see from the pictures.

 

yup.. they're for CONSULT.... that's what the dealer plugs the scanner tool into so they can dink with the ECU.

 

Yea, I forgot the step about unscrewing the diag plug, and rescrewing it to the lower dash. I will add that.
There were also 2 other wires which were not plugged into anything. Are they also for diag or the ECU? They were both large wiring harnesses if I remember correctly.

Cheers,
Matthew

 

the plugs near the hood release with the big rubber boots over them are diagnostic ports to hook up to a CONSULT system....

 

yea, i repaired mine awhile back

now last week they died again

checked it out, solder joints are all good

now it depends on how the wires are bent coming from the connector, argh! pita!