[DML] Door Harness

["Gus Schlachter" <gus@xxxx>]

While chasing intermittent door locks, I have discovered that I have a short
in my harness somewhere. The brown/pink wire going to the door lock
switches is shorted to ground, even when the harness is disconnected from
the lock module and inside both doors. This wire is in each door harness
but the two are spliced together at some point, with a single wire going to
the lock module. To debug this further, I need to isolate the harnesses.

Does anyone know where those two wires join? I would try disconnecting each
door harness, but it looks from the diagrams that the interior connector of
that harness is behind the rear speaker panel - you know, the one glued in?!
But it's difficult to tell from the shop manual.

My only other choice is to replace the shorted wire with an another wire in
the door harness. There is an unused connector in the door (green/white
with a ground) but I'd still have the same logistical problem as above, in
that I'd have to find the other end of the green/white wire in the relay
compartment, or wherever it is.

I do have one other option, which is to swap wires on the existing
connector. I could use the shorted wire as the ground, since it's grounded
anyway, and use the existing black wire for the signal line. But I'm not
real keen on having a black wire in my car that is NOT a ground. That's
just asking for trouble later on.

I really don't want to replace the door harness, but I could use some advice
from anyone here who has suffered that fate.


Gus Schlachter
Austin, TX
VIN# 4695