lil_Blue_Ford
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I ran into this problem once before, mom started complaining that her explorer would randomly start dinging that a door was ajar and clicking the locks. Before I could put much effort into chasing the problem, wires started burning. Since the smoke had been let out of a couple wires, it was easy to find where the fault was - a couple wires for the drivers side door had broken inside the rubber piece between the door and A pillar. That was a year or two ago.
Now, it has started acting up again. Randomly going down the road it will start dinging that a door is ajar and it starts playing with the locks. Some days it does it once or twice and that's it, some days it's pretty much non-stop. The assumption was that the wires in the passenger side door were the culprit so yesterday I pulled the boot back and.... the wires look like brand new. I checked the back two doors and the hatch by pulling back the boots and looking and they all looked good. I didn't pull the boot on the drivers side door but I wiggled the thing a good bit and nothing happened. I know that when I fixed it I soldered the wires back together and used heat shrink tubing on them. The ones that were not separated got a coating of liquid electrical tape and wrapped with quality electrical tape so I find it hard to believe that they gave out.
So I'm not sure where to start on trying to figure out wtf is going on. If I had some way to localize the problem to a particular part of the truck, that would be a help. Because it seems to be a random problem, short of pulling all the interior trim and tracing every wire, I'm not sure how to find it. So I'm looking for ideas....
2002 Explorer xls, 4-door, 4x4, automatic, 4.0L sohc.
Now, it has started acting up again. Randomly going down the road it will start dinging that a door is ajar and it starts playing with the locks. Some days it does it once or twice and that's it, some days it's pretty much non-stop. The assumption was that the wires in the passenger side door were the culprit so yesterday I pulled the boot back and.... the wires look like brand new. I checked the back two doors and the hatch by pulling back the boots and looking and they all looked good. I didn't pull the boot on the drivers side door but I wiggled the thing a good bit and nothing happened. I know that when I fixed it I soldered the wires back together and used heat shrink tubing on them. The ones that were not separated got a coating of liquid electrical tape and wrapped with quality electrical tape so I find it hard to believe that they gave out.
So I'm not sure where to start on trying to figure out wtf is going on. If I had some way to localize the problem to a particular part of the truck, that would be a help. Because it seems to be a random problem, short of pulling all the interior trim and tracing every wire, I'm not sure how to find it. So I'm looking for ideas....
2002 Explorer xls, 4-door, 4x4, automatic, 4.0L sohc.