OPEN AND SHUT CASE

[shell]

The battery went dead on the cerb, so I gained entry by the trades mans, connected up the jump leads, fired her up, no probs, shut the door, put the car back together, tried to get in to move her, and non of the door switches worked, stripped down the necessary to get in again, drove the car in to the garage and left her there. Any ideas apart from the fuses, which I will check, but while I'm fiddling around thought I should be armed with an alternative if the fuses aren't the issue.

Cheers

[Julian64]

Likely the fuses are the issue, or at least you wanna hope they are.

Charging a completely flat battery on the car gives a high voltage to the electrics. Fingerscrossed unless someone was handy with paperclips the fuses should be the first to go.

[shell]

Cheers Julian, you are dead right I do hope it the fuses. Ive not even looked at the fuse box yet, are the fuses easy to pick up?

[kojak69]

When you get in, and the battery is charged up, there is a door reset box on top of the tank. Try unplugging it (pull the leads of 4 a few seconds), and reconnect.

[shell]

kojak69 said:

When you get in, and the battery is charged up, there is a door reset box on top of the tank. Try unplugging it (pull the leads of 4 a few seconds), and reconnect.

Nice one Mick, is it obvious which is the door reset box?

[BigBazza]

Same happened when I got mine back from bodyshop, doors wouldn't work, apparently if battery has been disconnected you need to reset the ECU AND the black box in the boot. Not sure which one it is and have no point of reference now but read all the labels.

[Julian64]

shell said:

Cheers Julian, you are dead right I do hope it the fuses. Ive not even looked at the fuse box yet, are the fuses easy to pick up?

err, you mean to diagnose?

In the boot, high up on the right hand side is a velcro flap. Below it is the main fuse box for the car.

Don't bother to take the fuses out. Just put your meter on volts and, in turn, put your meter across each fuse. The meter should read Ov for all fuses. Any fuse which reads 12V is a dud.

[kojak69]

shell said:

kojak69 said: When you get in, and the battery is charged up, there is a door reset box on top of the tank. Try unplugging it (pull the leads of 4 a few seconds), and reconnect. Nice one Mick, is it obvious which is the door reset box?

Mine says it on it.

[shell]

Julian64 said:

shell said: Cheers Julian, you are dead right I do hope it the fuses. Ive not even looked at the fuse box yet, are the fuses easy to pick up? err, you mean to diagnose? In the boot, high up on the right hand side is a velcro flap. Below it is the main fuse box for the car. Don't bother to take the fuses out. Just put your meter on volts and, in turn, put your meter across each fuse. The meter should read Ov for all fuses. Any fuse which reads 12V is a dud.

What meter?

[shell]

BigBazza said:

Same happened when I got mine back from bodyshop, doors wouldn't work, apparently if battery has been disconnected you need to reset the ECU AND the black box in the boot. Not sure which one it is and have no point of reference now but read all the labels.

Thanks Bazza, do you anyone know what you do to reset, is it dead obvious, press the button marked RESET!!

[flashheart]

Folks you are reading a little too much into this. In the boot, under the velcro flap and sitting on top of the fuel tank are all the 'ECUs'. If you ease them out they will have a label on top telling you what they are, when they were manufactured and who made them. The 'reset' people talk about is simply the removing of all of the connectors from the back of the box, leaving them for a few seconds/minutes then reconnecting them. This has the effect of 'resetting' the box. There are no 'reset' buttons on the boxes. If the labels have come off, the door controller is the one with 4 connectors at the rear and about 6000 wires attached.

Good Luck

Flash

[kojak69]

flashheart said:

6000 wires attached. Flash

That'll worry him.

>> Edited by kojak69 on Tuesday 21st September 10:11

[shell]

Now I'm worried!!! But thanks, I think I'll just set fire to her

[cerber450]

kojak69 said:

When you get in, and the battery is charged up, there is a door reset box on top of the tank. Try unplugging it (pull the leads of 4 a few seconds), and reconnect.

Exactly what this man said.

The box is to the right of the CD multi changer box and is marked doors (well is in mine anyhoo!).
Close all the doors and pull the connector plug from the control box for a few seconds then reconnect it then arm the alarm then proceed as usual.

I've had to do this many a time as I'm always messing around with the car and I disconnect the battery each time.

Craig.

[shell]

Cheers gents, I will give it a try this pm and let you know the results.

[Julian64]

shell said:

Julian64 said: shell said: Cheers Julian, you are dead right I do hope it the fuses. Ive not even looked at the fuse box yet, are the fuses easy to pick up? err, you mean to diagnose? In the boot, high up on the right hand side is a velcro flap. Below it is the main fuse box for the car. Don't bother to take the fuses out. Just put your meter on volts and, in turn, put your meter across each fuse. The meter should read Ov for all fuses. Any fuse which reads 12V is a dud. What meter?

Okay get two wires and strip both ends. Hold one end of each wire in your mouth so that the bare bit of each wire touches each side of your tongue.

Then apply other end of wires to each side of each fuse in turn. Your tongue will tell you if you have a dud fuse.

[shell]

Julian64 said:

shell said: Julian64 said: shell said: Cheers Julian, you are dead right I do hope it the fuses. Ive not even looked at the fuse box yet, are the fuses easy to pick up? err, you mean to diagnose? In the boot, high up on the right hand side is a velcro flap. Below it is the main fuse box for the car. Don't bother to take the fuses out. Just put your meter on volts and, in turn, put your meter across each fuse. The meter should read Ov for all fuses. Any fuse which reads 12V is a dud. What meter? Okay get two wires and strip both ends. Hold one end of each wire in your mouth so that the bare bit of each wire touches each side of your tongue. Then apply other end of wires to each side of each fuse in turn. Your tongue will tell you if you have a dud fuse.

Oh I thought you meant get a meter ruler and volt the car with it, silly old me, a meter is not long enough. I will try your method instead. I will leave a letter with my wife, with your address in it so she can contact you to tell you I left our children fatherless thanks to you. Just kiddin again.

As I don't have a meter ruler I will just pull the fuses out that relate to the door electrickery. That is after resetting the ECU's

I'm so glad we can have a little fun over something like this!

[satman]

Julian64 said:

Okay get two wires and strip both ends. Hold one end of each wire in your mouth so that the bare bit of each wire touches each side of your tongue. Then apply other end of wires to each side of each fuse in turn. Your tongue will tell you if you have a dud fuse.

[shell]

I said I would let you know how the reset thing went, well, it;s like this,................,


It bloody worked, touch down. in and out, in and out, or something like that.

Cheers again guys.

[kojak69]