Door Ajar when doors off?

[Bearcat1]

You Bronco thinks the door is on - had my rear driver door do this when I pulled them off. There is a bar that makes contact between 2 of the pins in the door plugin to let the control modules know that the doors are off. When this fails to make contact, it thinks the door is on even though it's in the bag and not anywhere nearby. This is an easy fix!

Items needed:

• Small flathead screw driver or small pocket knife
• Bit of sandpaper folded in half (grit side facing out)
• Glasses (if you're vision sucks like mine)

Steps:

• Open the door cover where the door plugs into the vehicle
• Use the screwdriver or blade to push the little tab away from the 2 pins
• Clean with the sandpaper
• Use the screwdriver to make sure the bar is well pressed onto the pins

Here's a diagram (stolen off the internet) with the bit in question circled.

Thx, worked like a charm!! Had the doors off a lot last summer with no errors, 1st time this summer and this fixed the errors.

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[Johnny Mo]

Wonder if some WD with silicone or some dielectric grease will help keep them from corroding so quickly.

 

[AZMikeL]

Possibly if corrosion is a thing where you live. Here it's dust, dust, dust, so ANY lube just results in a 'chocolate coating'!

I lube everything I can in the house/car with dry silicone spray if possible. I even make the car wash people wash the tire dressing off if they accidentally do it because after a couple of days, the tires like like this:

 

[Hobbes]

You Bronco thinks the door is on - had my rear driver door do this when I pulled them off. There is a bar that makes contact between 2 of the pins in the door plugin to let the control modules know that the doors are off. When this fails to make contact, it thinks the door is on even though it's in the bag and not anywhere nearby. This is an easy fix!

This is the solution!! Thank you! It took me like 2 minutes to fix once I knew what to do. I didn't even need the sandpaper, I just used the screwdriver flat tip to gently scrape the contact area.

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