The Resurrection of Vixen Continues...

["Stragand, Dave" <dave.stragand@xxxx>]

Hi All,

It seems I have a rather unusual electrical problem with my door locks. andI was hoping some of you electronics gurus might be able to shed some insight onto the situation.

With the ignition -on-, both door locks function normally and correctly. However, with the ignition -off-, all I am able to do is lock the doors. Unlock fails to function.

I was able to track down the situation to this: With the doors locked and key on, the voltage in the brown/pink wire is 13 volts. With the key off, it drops to .75 volts. Thus, there is not enough juice in the circuit to fire off the unlock process. (For reference, I find the purple wire is always 13v, and the brown/silver is 13v (key on or off) with the doors in the unlocked position.)

I followed the wiring diagram's "NK" wires all over the place... they lead to the solenoids, door lock switches, and the inertia switch. I tried all of the following to no avail:

- Disconnecting each door's wiring completely at the T-panel.
- Disconnecting each door's switch and solenoids on an individual basis
- Unplugging the inertia switch
- Re-grounding the inertia switch.
- (By the way, tripping the inertia switch -will- unlock the doors... but can't remember right now if it did so with the key off as well. It is an updated/relocated switch with the white paint on it.)
- Cleaned all of the contacts I could find with Tarn-X (thanks Bob Zilla for the tip) 
- Replaced new Lockzilla with old module, swapped back

Something is very odd here that I just can't figure out. Any ideas what I'm missing, or ideas on what to check?

-Dave Stragand
VIN #05927
http://www.projectvixen.com