2002 Exp. - Accessing wiring in driver's door - black sleeve near hinge

[lunacy43]

I am still working on my power window issue. I ordered a new switch and replaced, which did not resolve the issue. Luckily I got to RMA the switch back.

At this point, I have no functioning power windows. For a while, all the windows would work from any switch if I had the driver's door halfway open.


With the driver's door open, near the hinge I have a rubber sleeve that covers the wiring. When fiddling with the power window, I grabbed the sleeve and moved it a little, and all of the sudden, my windows worked for a couple of days.

After that, I attempted to find a way to get that sleeve off to see if I had a connector or broken wire inside, but I haven't figured out how to do it.

How do I get that rubber sleeve off. It pops into holes, one on the body, one on the door, and it seems to have stirrups inside that prevent it from sliding back. I don't want to cut those stirrups, but I need to get my windows working, as I'm tired of getting my McDonald's while trying not to bang my door on the building.

Anyone help with this?

 

[jrford]

pull the door panel off, i think you have to get to it from inside, also the drivers kick panels where the wires come in the body might have a connector for it.

 

[jmlynchjr]

it sounds like you have the same problem as me, my windows quit working several weeks ago. I've checked all the wires at the switch and have no pwr. I was told that the red wire is the pwr, there are two reds (one withr blk stripe and one with gry stripe) so I'm not sure which one is the actual pwr wire.

 

[skeeter123]

If you pull the door panel off, you can push the sleeve through the hole and in to the door a bit. the group of wires on my '02 Exp XLT was bound with black tape; i had to take off a lot of that. I believe it is usually the ground-wires (the thicker black ones) that fail because they are less flexible. Open it up, strip off as much of the tape as you want, try wiggling the black wires (while pressing the buttons) to identify which wire has an internal break. Then, cut it and solder in a jumper-wire. The windows/etc. work by the switch (in the driver's) door providing a ground for the window-motor (in any of the doors), which is how all the windows can be rendered inoperative by a break in one ground wire. The +12volts is supplied separately to each of the window-motors. If there's no power to the red wires, it may be a blown fuse. It's been awhile, but I thought those stirrups were some kind of cord or string, I gave up and just cut the ones I had to. And it's just as much fun shrugging your shoulders at the Dairy Queen when your window won't go down....

 

[lunacy43]

Thx skeeter, that's a good walkthrough and sounds like a wire inside that sleeve is probably my issue.

I will give it a looksee when I can and report back here.



Thx

 

[bbgriff3]

bbgriff3

I had same problem windows stoped working one day tryed a fuse nothing. Found this forum, found out about the broken wire. I pulled the boot back and saw a broken blue wire. I soildered the wire back together and now i have windows. So i would check for a broken blue wire.

 

[jmlynchjr]

I just fixed my windows yesterday afternoon. When I pushed the boot back I found that the Blue wire was broken. Soldered it back together and ALL works fine. Easy fix.

 

[rblais]

I had the same problem only it was door locks not working. The cause was a broken black ground wire in the bundle of wires that you are trying to get at between the door and the jam. I took the door panel off and pulled the rubber protective boot back through the door. The boot is formed to fit into the holes in the door and the door jam. When you pinch the boot together at the jam or the door you will be able to pull it out and slide it back along the wire bundle. Simply pull the boot into the door to expose all those wires and you will find the broken wire and fix it as described by others. Really easy. Good luck.