How-To: Rebuild Your Door Lock Switches (S5)
 

FIRST OFF, I TAKE NO RESPONSIBILITY FOR WHAT YOU DO TO YOUR CAR, THIS IS HOW I FIXED MY DOOR LOCKS AND I HOPE YOU FIX YOURS, BUT IF YOU BREAK STUFF PLEASE DONT SUE ME! :)

With that being said, let's proceed!

STEP ONE

Take all nine bolts & Phillips head screws out, make sure to put them in a place where you don't loose them because YOU WILL LOOSE THEM!

After you get them all out you'll want to take the plastic piece off behind the door handle, pull the door handle as far as you can and slide it out.

Then gently pull on the door in each section as it does have locking screws that 'pop' when you take them out of the hole or push them in, I think there was about 12 of them total but that's probably wrong.

When the door panel is off, there will be two connectors holding it on, simply disconnect them and put the door panel off to the side.

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STEP TWO

Undo both of these screws, make sure and note their sizes, the longer one goes into the top hole, don’t remove any more screws there.

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STEP THREE

Disconnect this connector and slide it through the water guard and your lock switch will be able to be lifted out of the car, which is highly recommended when working on a rocky concrete driveway that camouflages every screw you drop, don't ask me how I know! :bigthumb:

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STEP FOUR

Un-do this little screw and take the metal tab off the two springs, watch out, there may be life left in them and they could spring across the room.

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STEP FIVE

My dad recommended bending the springs out some, which ironically worked, so bend the spring out just a little bit enough where it's still straight but puts more pressure on that tab (because it slides and makes contact to tell the actuators to move up or down, you'll see when you take the circuit board off).

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Re-installation is the reverse.

This is also a well how-to take off your door panel, note I don't have any subwoofers in the doors because they didn't work and I needed rear speakers any ways so go me! :)

Thanks, if you've got any questions let me know!

- Tech

Nice pictures. Would you care to explain exactly what you were trying to fix? Could the locks be moved without the electrical connections being made, so adjusting the springs made the contacts more solid? (Just trying to guess here...)

Yes, the springs had flattened out basically so I had to push in on the lock and it only worked 1/4th of the time and it wouldnt make the lock go down all the way.

Interesting, I might have to look into seeing if mine need attention.

Good write up, thanks for the effort

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would this also fix the problem i have with the follow me system not locking or unlocking the passenger side when i lock or unlock the drivers side?

That is EXACTLY what this will fix, this why I did it in the first place, I got tired of having to open my girlfriends door for her so I fixed that! :D

Great description and pictures! Just one suggestion, if I may be so bold, should have gone to hardware store and spent 28 cents on new compression springs with a little, little, more resistance. Not knocking you at all, just an addition. Thanks for the pictures.

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Yeah should have, but hey this was free! :) They are still working fine, so if they stop working again I'll buy some new springs.

Good job man thanks!

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-Ted

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