The inside workings of a monaro door lock motor :-)

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My drivers door lock has recently stopped working so thought I would investigate, seeing as I could only find info about removing and replacing on the Internet thought I'd share what i did

Once it's out of the door I removed the white plastic loop part from the top which snaps in and out sideways then with a bit of gentle prying and levering removed the black cover part

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Then there's enough flex in the plastic to get the screw shaft off its mounts and completely remove the gearing

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Then I had a look for a fault of some sort but couldn't really see anything wrong with the soldered joints or the connections so assumed a it was a contact issue so gave the motor and microswitches a good dose of electrical contact spray







Then reconnected the disassembled motor to the car and ran the motor by locking and unlocking the door with the remote ( courtesy light switch needs to be held in to do this ) . I did this several times spraying in between with the cleaner.

https://youtu.be/mOumJR0hesA

Then reassembled all the bits and pieces and checked it was working which it was perfectly, so now I'll see how long it lasts

[L2VXR]

Bit of an update on this, after a few weeks the door lock stopped working again so me being not one to give up I stripped it down again and found that the white micro switch was at fault and worked intermittently so started broswing the Internet for some info on the switch. After a bit of digging I found this on the omega owners website
http://oldsite.omegaowners.com//forum/YaBB.pl?num=...
Excellent right up on replacing the micro switch so for £1.50 and three blobs of solder I'm back up and running . Hopefully that will be and end to the problem :-)