[Shotimes] "Door Ajar" light (reprise)

[Mike.Wojton@us.o-i.com]

Well, here's what I did yesterday.  Pulled the interior panel off of
the most likely candidate (one of 2 doors I unstuck the day this all
started), spayed everythig from the inside.  Sort of.  There's not
much room to get my big hand in there.  Still nothing.

There is indeed some kind of switch in there mounted on some part
of the latch mechanism.  I unplugged it to inspect the connection.
The original grease that was in the plug is still there, so I'm guessing
the connection is ok.  I couldn't find any way to get the switch off.
My guess is it's not designed to be replaceable.  And probably wasn't
expected to ever fail.  But I found that by unplugging it, the light
goes off.  Fine with me.  The light does still work if any of the other
doors are opened, but the light doesn't come on at startup.  But I
can live with that.


Mike Wojton
Toledo, Ohio

-'95 Green MTX  3/01-1/03
   ShoShop y-pipe

-'95 White MTX
   '96 Brake Upgrade

None of us is as dumb as all of us.



shotimes-admin@autox.team.net wrote on 04/11/2003 01:21:04 AM:

> Maybe spray them again and wait?
> 
> Saturday, I had a back door latch hanging up and I sprayed Mobil 1 in 
the
> spray can on all of the latches.  The "door ajar" lite comes on, so I 
hit
> them again.  Still get the damn lite.  Well now on Thursday all is OK. 
The
> lite is off and all of the doors latch just great..
> 
> Jim White - greensho@crown.net
> Valparaiso, Indiana
> '93  5 SPEED   278k few mods
> '95  5 SPEED   241k lots of mods
> 
> "double clutch"  it's good for both you and your SHO
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: <Mike.Wojton@us.o-i.com>
> To: <shotimes@autox.team.net>
> Sent: Thursday, April 10, 2003 8:56 AM
> Subject: [Shotimes] "Door Ajar" light (reprise)
> 
> 
> > So I sprayed the beejeezus out of my door latch mechanisms in an
> > attempt to unstick whatever is stuck and get the "door ajar" light
> > to go off to no avail.  I guess I'm going to have to remove the door
> > panels one by one and check them out from the inside.  There has
> > to be some kind of a switch in there that might have gone bad.
> >
> > Meanwhile, the inside of the car stinks to high heaven like Liquid
> > Wrench.  I'm getting a headache just thinking about it.
> >
> >
> > Mike Wojton
> > Toledo, Ohio
> >
> > -'95 Green MTX  3/01-1/03
> >    ShoShop y-pipe
> >
> > -'95 White MTX
> >    '96 Brake Upgrade
> >
> > None of us is as dumb as all of us.
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