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91 Camry Driver's Door Electrical
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Sanguinity
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Jul 15, 2007, 12:36 PM
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91 Camry Driver's Door Electrical
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So, I'm having all sorts of trouble with electrical that seems to center in or around the driver's side door.
* all power windows dead, both from main console in driver's door and at individual switches around car
* power locks can't be actuated from the driver's door (neither by key nor button)
* driver's-side power lock CAN be actuated by the passenger-side switch or key
* driver's side automatic seatbelt is dead in the "drive" position
* passenger's automatic seatbelt is fine
I'm thinking that this isn't a circuit-breaker/fuse problem, because no entire system is affected except for the power windows, and in any case, according to the Chilton's manual for the car, the things that are affected are NOT grouped together onto one fuse/breaker, and there are other circuits on that set of fuse/breakers that do not seem to be affected.
I would say that there's a bad multi-connector in the driver's door somewhere, but for the seatbelt. It looks to me like all the seatbelt electrical is in the frame: both door-open sensor and motor wiring. Is there another door-open sensor in the door itself? (For kicks: activating the driver's frame door-open sensor causes a relay under the dashboard to cycle; activating the passenger frame door-open sensor causes nothing at all to happen, even though opening or closing the passenger's door causes the passenger's seatbelt to cycle. I do NOT understand what's going on there.)
I had the door half-apart this morning, looking for a loose multi-connector, and haven't found one yet. After the electrical comes in past the driver's side kick-panel fuse box (without seeming to hook up with it), it divides into two multi-connectors, and then rebundles itself to head off to I-can't-find-where.
Anyone have any advice for me? AM I looking for a bad multi-connector? And where? Why is the driver's side seatbelt affected? Why does the power lock still work if activated from elsewhere in the car?
Thanks.
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Tom Greenleaf
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Jul 15, 2007, 1:43 PM
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Re: 91 Camry Driver's Door Electrical
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A maybe but with all that going on in the driver's door especially I'd suspect something in common to those items that could be a multi-connector like you mentioned but check out where the wiring bends to feed all that stuff hidden from easy view in the door jam snorkle where they have to bend. I don't know of this as common in any Toyota but I've had lots on older cars of other makes have the failure in there,
T
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