Dreaded Wire loom Drivers Door

[David Edwards]

Mine went again this morning, central locking and windows, when I checked it three wires had come apart again, what a pathetic loom it is, the wires are so thin and fiddly, took me ages to join them with connectors again. Has anyone replaced the complete loom yet, I am seriously thinking of having it done, if I do I will post the result, at least I have fixed it for now, even fixed one wire and I dont know what it does, lol.

[missfixit70]

Have you just used crimp connectors where they broke David?

[Simon Jones]

For £85 you can buy a whole new Mazda loom. Should give you another 10 years of use & probably a better option that repairing one which is already showing signs of age:

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/Mazda-Bongo-Freed ... 286.c0.m14

[mikeonb4c]

For £85 you can buy a whole new Mazda loom. Should give you another 10 years of use & probably a better option that repairing one which is already showing signs of age:

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/Mazda-Bongo-Freed ... 286.c0.m14

Wow! Well spotted Simon. I'd been wondering if anyone would get around to offering such a product as most of us will need one sooner or later I suspect!

[David Edwards]

Been looking for ages, thanks at least it gives me a price to aim at, although I have always said e bay prices for bongo stuff are artificially high. Will see what quotes I get,lol.

[stringman]

Following up missfixits question, if you have simply used crimp connector (or, god forbid, scotch locks) to connect the wires you will get problems as you have shortened the cable then put a connector that does not like being "stretched" in its place.

It may be a bit time consuming but a lot cheaper than the above mentioned prices for a loom to lengthen the wires and repair at the same time by soldering and heat shrinking a new piece of wire. This is a far superior way of repairing cables permanently.

[jaylee]

Just took up the slack with mine, had no trouble since!

[the janner vanner]

Thank you for this valuable link and well done Simon, just what I need, mine is playing up again,

Dave

[David Edwards]

That was what I was hoping to do, but.. damn weather again, I just had time to use connector blocks for the time being, the area is sooo fiddly, then the rain started. What a summer eh, my sister is over from germany for a couple of weeks and left 32 degree heat to come back and freeze. When it breaks, if I havent had a new loom made by then I will go mad with the soldering iron,lol.

[owelly]

I posted up a solution to this four years ago. I spliced in new wires inside the door and under the dash. Soldered and heat shrink. I also ran in a couple of extra wires and fitted a central locking motor for the drivers door to enable my alarm to remotely lock the doors. I'm about to embark on a similar solution to the tailgate as the wires have also broken in that!