bimmerjeeper
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I'd appreciate any help anyone can offer. I have searched quite a bit on this topic, and can't find anything beyond superficial notes.
It's always some step that is just glossed over by the experts on these forums that makes a "1 hour" job into a 5 hour job. (Or leaves you dead in the water)
1) I have no idea how to deal with the door hinge boot wires. I peeled off one side of the boot with a needlenose, but the other will not give. Regardless, when I push aside the unclipped side of the boot, all I see is a thick loom of braided "straps". See photo. There are no wires visible at all. The taped up loom does not budge and there is zero play. I have no clue what I am even looking at. I was expecting to see broken wires here. There is almost zero room to work. Even if there were wires, it would be a trick to actually strip and crimp them back together. What exactly do I do now????
2) How do I test the switch? People keep saying "just test the switch". HOW? I did manage to unplug the 2 wire harness clips that go into the switch. On the plug, there are lots of little "boxes" where the window switch wire harness plugs into. However, I have not seen a single person on the internet explain how to test this. If I can't see a obviously snapped wire in Step #2, what do I do here? Please be as exact and precise as you possible can be, as "just test the switch then drink beer!" is only useful to an expert who has already done this fix. Where do I plug the probes? Onto the prongs of the switch? Into the blue harness? Exactly which prongs do I test?What do I look for? How do I know what result is good or bad, and what it means?
Thanks.
It's always some step that is just glossed over by the experts on these forums that makes a "1 hour" job into a 5 hour job. (Or leaves you dead in the water)
1) I have no idea how to deal with the door hinge boot wires. I peeled off one side of the boot with a needlenose, but the other will not give. Regardless, when I push aside the unclipped side of the boot, all I see is a thick loom of braided "straps". See photo. There are no wires visible at all. The taped up loom does not budge and there is zero play. I have no clue what I am even looking at. I was expecting to see broken wires here. There is almost zero room to work. Even if there were wires, it would be a trick to actually strip and crimp them back together. What exactly do I do now????
2) How do I test the switch? People keep saying "just test the switch". HOW? I did manage to unplug the 2 wire harness clips that go into the switch. On the plug, there are lots of little "boxes" where the window switch wire harness plugs into. However, I have not seen a single person on the internet explain how to test this. If I can't see a obviously snapped wire in Step #2, what do I do here? Please be as exact and precise as you possible can be, as "just test the switch then drink beer!" is only useful to an expert who has already done this fix. Where do I plug the probes? Onto the prongs of the switch? Into the blue harness? Exactly which prongs do I test?What do I look for? How do I know what result is good or bad, and what it means?
Thanks.