Transit connect issue/ Can anyone help?

[R1 Indy]

I just bought a 2003 ford transit connect, now when i view it, i noticed that the side door did not open with the central locking, every other door did, the dealer agreed to sort it, but after a day agreed he couldn't afford to try any more parts, and offered me £100 off the price to fix myself which i accepted.

now I've just had a look, and something just doesn't look right with the 2 electrical connectors? there is only about 2mm of pin showing above the plastic, yet the pin pushes right in, what are the chances of being that little tolerance?

So i put a lump of weld marker/yellow paint on each pin and closed the door, and no paint transferred to the other side, which shows the pins are clearly not contacting the other side.

so either the pins should come out a lot further? or there is a piece missing? or the wrong part has been fitted by someone trying to fix it?

and the door is definatly closing 100%, as there is no gap.

So does anyone have any experience with this? or have a connect and mind checking theirs?

this is a pic of both ends:





Thanks for any help of this

[Rickyy]

Not sure if it's the light or not, but those top two pins look bent.

[ch427]

you could try putting some washers behind the plastic housing on the fixing bolts to space them out and re try the paint trick, maybe they are badly worn.

[DrDeAtH]

Replace the door contact, it looks like the pins are stuck in too far.
In the mean time, give them, and the body contact a good clean, it may help.

further help can be had on the transit forums

www.fordtransit.org/forum

[R1 Indy]

Yea that is my thoughts, that the pins should be right out, odd that they are all stuck in though?

I will try packing it out as a temporary measure, and get a new unit at some point, I've been trying to find a picture of one to see how far they are meant to stick out, but, can't seem to find one.

[blaineuk]

Un bolt both parts and hold them together and see if it works, there should be enough cable to do it.

[R1 Indy]

Argh, ive now spaced both bits out a fair bit, but the contacts are now deffinatly touching, but it's not working correctly.

If I manually lock the side door, then lock the van with central locking, then unlock it, the side door opens as it should.

But the door does not lock when I lock the van.

So there is obviously an issue somewhere, I will have to work out which wire is for what, and see what has power and when it gets power.

I'm still wondering if it is the wrong part fitted?