"281 Ranger" - ring any bells?
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Hello all,
Spent 4 hours on Sunday debugging my intermittent passenger window issue on the Chim. Had already traced the fault to an issue between the switch and the inner loom, so took the top dash off (too much time upside down in the footwells was not pleasant!)
My car has a newer alarm (AutoWatch 160 Rli/T) which has window closure, so my suspicions were that the window closure module was causing the very high resistance in one of the window wires.
Having lifted the dash, and the centre bulkhead, I can see that 4 of the original switch wires on each switch have been cut and run up under the dash. The cut/solder job has been covered with heat-shrink, rather than the black tape (!!) which covers the alarm wire-up, making me think that this was done at a different time.
Cutting to the chase, the wires all run up under the dash to a sealed black box, about the size of a cigarette box, marked with the words:
281 Ranger
The only other markings are a MFG date in 1993 - making me think this was something fitted at the factory. Does anyone else have one of these under the dash, and is it just a window closure module?
If I can find some idea of wiring diags, I can replace it - otherwise I might split it open and see if it can be repaired.
Spent 4 hours on Sunday debugging my intermittent passenger window issue on the Chim. Had already traced the fault to an issue between the switch and the inner loom, so took the top dash off (too much time upside down in the footwells was not pleasant!)
My car has a newer alarm (AutoWatch 160 Rli/T) which has window closure, so my suspicions were that the window closure module was causing the very high resistance in one of the window wires.
Having lifted the dash, and the centre bulkhead, I can see that 4 of the original switch wires on each switch have been cut and run up under the dash. The cut/solder job has been covered with heat-shrink, rather than the black tape (!!) which covers the alarm wire-up, making me think that this was done at a different time.
Cutting to the chase, the wires all run up under the dash to a sealed black box, about the size of a cigarette box, marked with the words:
281 Ranger
The only other markings are a MFG date in 1993 - making me think this was something fitted at the factory. Does anyone else have one of these under the dash, and is it just a window closure module?
If I can find some idea of wiring diags, I can replace it - otherwise I might split it open and see if it can be repaired.
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