With the suspension sorted I moved on to a job I had been putting off for a while which was rewiring my driver's door loom. I followed cully's really helpful guide and gathered the parts (I got the loom which was part no. 6542 VQ from a German ebay seller for about £57 and postage on top).
The new loom had plenty of length on it but quite a few wires coming from my A pillar had broken so getting them to match up right was a bit of a pain.
I used a cable marking/numbering kit (Hellerman Tyton)from ebay which was really helpful in numbering the old wires
Also I'd never really soldered much before but I found a guide on youtube which was pretty helpful - twisting the wires around each other made things a lot easier as the wires didn't need to be held in place to solder and the joins ended up being a lot smaller meaning I could use the smallest heatshrink to fit over them.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zu3TYBs65FM
Here's a few notes I made in case they are of use to anyone. As I said a fair few wires had broken off so when it came down to the last few wires it was a bit trial and error.
Taking the door off really helped
It was massively satisfying once I'd finished it all off. I now have working electric windows, mirrors, central locking and the deadlocks work again which feels like quite a big fix given the majority of the electrics haven't worked from when I first bought the car
With my new found soldering skills I took the opportunity to tidy up the stereo wiring and wrap it all with Tesa tape. I also fitted a connects 2 adaptor so my pioneer headunit works with the OEM remote stalk. I will properly solder the wires going to the rear wiper at some point too.
Before:
Afterwards they were much tidier but I'm still having a problem getting them to fit in behind the headunit because of the harness adaptor for the stereo and the stalk adaptor - if anyone has any tips on how to do this - I was wondering if I could remove the glove box and reach in behind to get the cables to sit right?
The new loom had plenty of length on it but quite a few wires coming from my A pillar had broken so getting them to match up right was a bit of a pain.
I used a cable marking/numbering kit (Hellerman Tyton)from ebay which was really helpful in numbering the old wires
Also I'd never really soldered much before but I found a guide on youtube which was pretty helpful - twisting the wires around each other made things a lot easier as the wires didn't need to be held in place to solder and the joins ended up being a lot smaller meaning I could use the smallest heatshrink to fit over them.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zu3TYBs65FM
Here's a few notes I made in case they are of use to anyone. As I said a fair few wires had broken off so when it came down to the last few wires it was a bit trial and error.
Taking the door off really helped
It was massively satisfying once I'd finished it all off. I now have working electric windows, mirrors, central locking and the deadlocks work again which feels like quite a big fix given the majority of the electrics haven't worked from when I first bought the car
With my new found soldering skills I took the opportunity to tidy up the stereo wiring and wrap it all with Tesa tape. I also fitted a connects 2 adaptor so my pioneer headunit works with the OEM remote stalk. I will properly solder the wires going to the rear wiper at some point too.
Before:
Afterwards they were much tidier but I'm still having a problem getting them to fit in behind the headunit because of the harness adaptor for the stereo and the stalk adaptor - if anyone has any tips on how to do this - I was wondering if I could remove the glove box and reach in behind to get the cables to sit right?
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..on the lookout for a 6/rallye