Driver's Door Electrical Connection

[Rocksalt]

I suppose that makes sense in the event any of those wires are powered and you touch more than one pin while trying to straighten things.

sure wish the Jeep engineers simply flipped the male connectors to the door side

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[Gray Matter Jeep]

I case anybody is curious this is the pin that does the power mirrors. All the way on the left. I don't have any of the safety features or proximity on my JTR.

Thank you so much for posting this nugget of info. Without it I have been trying to figure out which pin for the power mirrors (my motor to adjust the tilt & pan of the mirror is inoperable).

Of course they all look to be "straight enough" so I am starting to think maybe the female side is damaged.

Thanks again... fingers crossed I get it working again soon.

 

[Eric Kern]

Add me to the list….everything works fine and no system disables messages, it’s only my driver side door lock switch that doesn’t work, highly confident it’s not bent pins either as I haven’t taken my doors off in about a year….brutal

 

[jwilson2899]

Add me to the list….everything works fine and no system disables messages, it’s only my driver side door lock switch that doesn’t work, highly confident it’s not bent pins either as I haven’t taken my doors off in about a year….brutal

Check your door harness too. I've seen a few, depending on the age of the truck, end up with a broken wire inside the door harness from opening and closing the door. The bending and unbending of the wires eventually causes them to fail.

 

[Eric Kern]

Check your door harness too. I've seen a few, depending on the age of the truck, end up with a broken wire inside the door harness from opening and closing the door. The bending and unbending of the wires eventually causes them to fail.

ok will do. It had crossed my mind….I think there was a slow degradation over time with mine. What I noticed was, I would stick my hand into the outside handle to unlock & open the driver door, then press the unlock switch from the inside (to unlock my rear door) and the physical lock would toggle from lock to unlock back to lock. I would then pull on my rear door handle to find It still locked, push the driver side front door unlock switch again, and only then would the rear door actually be unlocked…..this went on for at least 6 months before the lock switch just altogether stopped working.

 

[Gatorized]

ok will do. It had crossed my mind….I think there was a slow degradation over time with mine. What I noticed was, I would stick my hand into the outside handle to unlock & open the driver door, then press the unlock switch from the inside (to unlock my rear door) and the physical lock would toggle from lock to unlock back to lock. I would then pull on my rear door handle to find It still locked, push the driver side front door unlock switch again, and only then would the rear door actually be unlocked…..this went on for at least 6 months before the lock switch just altogether stopped working.

You can change the settings so all doors unlock when you unlock the drivers door. Try that to see. If it makes a difference.

 

[Eric Kern]

Check your door harness too. I've seen a few, depending on the age of the truck, end up with a broken wire inside the door harness from opening and closing the door. The bending and unbending of the wires eventually causes them to fail.

Gold star for you my friend!!!

 

[Maximus Gladius]

Gold star for you my friend!!!

Wow, what is the year, make, model and mileage of this?

 

[jwilson2899]

Gold star for you my friend!!!

Sucks it’s a broken harness, but glad you found it. It’s starting to become a lot more common as these get some age on them and people keep opening and closing the door.

 

[Eric Kern]

Wow, what is the year, make, model and mileage of this?

Launch Edition, 110k

 

[Eric Kern]

Sucks it’s a broken harness, but glad you found it. It’s starting to become a lot more common as these get some age on them and people keep opening and closing the door.

Yeah It seems sort of inevitable with the power doors/windows/everything else combined with the bend radius/cable routing created by opening and closing the door

 

[Maximus Gladius]

Yeah It seems sort of inevitable with the power doors/windows/everything else combined with the bend radius/cable routing created by opening and closing the door

Im tempted, as a preventative measure, to wipe Aerospace 303 on the harness wires to keep them from cracking.

 

[Eric Kern]

Im tempted, as a preventative measure, to wipe Aerospace 303 on the harness wires to keep them from cracking.

Yeah I’m not too familiar with that product, nor do I have a solid solution that I’d be confident recommending yet after seeing the failure in person. The breaks occurred at the crest of the harness bend radius (as one would expect), which makes me think you need some sort of sleeve or wire way to control It. On my LE, theirs a pretty substantial amount of cable that folds up on the inside of the door when it’s closed, so I wonder if I sometimes leaned my leg up against It or something while driving and if that exacerbated / reduced the radius / pinched the cables continuously until It cracked?!?! Don’t know, best bet is probably just to run new wires as the best short-midterm fix (which I have no desire to do). I only had one QD crimp connector set and the hardware store was closed so was forced to solder the 2nd wire. Solder will probably fail relatively soon due to It being so brittle and the location of the break. Gonna do some research on high strength flex connectors, not that It helps the 15 other wires that are still intact at the moment.

 

[glady8or]

So I had bodywork done about a year ago on my gladiator from paint corrosion… They replaced three of my doors and when I got the truck back the power windows work however on the driver side, the power lock button and the mirror adjustment buttons do not work… However, the power lock button on the passenger side works and controls the driver side lock I can’t see anything that says any of the pins are bent.

 

[JeepCares]

So I had bodywork done about a year ago on my gladiator from paint corrosion… They replaced three of my doors and when I got the truck back the power windows work however on the driver side, the power lock button and the mirror adjustment buttons do not work… However, the power lock button on the passenger side works and controls the driver side lock I can’t see anything that says any of the pins are bent.

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