Last Updated: 01/31/2018 @ ten:06 pm

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The ability door lock on the front rider side had been having problem unlocking for months and it seemed to finally stopped working. The degrading performance is a good sign, meaning that it should to exist the motor dying and not something like a gear mechanism problem, which would have been much harder to set.

I'yard a chip surprised that there isn't already a lot of guides or threads talking nigh fixing power door lock, then I hope that whatever info I share is in fact useful and not just repeats of what'southward been posted years ago. If so, please ignore my post.

If your power door lock is having issues, information technology simply takes $5 to replace the door lock's actuator motor. Don't spend that $95 bucks on a new one. If you DIY yous also save another hundred on labor.

Tools Needed

  • Medium sized flat screwdriver
  • 10mm socket wrench with extension
  • T-28 screw bit on a wrench or electrical screwdriver
  • Wire cutter with a flushed side
  • Needle nose pliers
  • Restriction cleaner or alcohol

Parts needed – Actuator motor with a dimension of 30mm x 24mm with 18mm flatsides, and a 2mm diameter shaft. Search for "actuator motor" on eBay.

Pace one – Follow the video on how to access the power window associates

But keep your window rolled upward and taped in place when doing this, since you don't demand to accept the ability window assembly apart.

TIP – remove the wire clips/retainers after the inside panel had been removed. Y'all tin then admission the back and remove them properly by pinching the retainers. Video shows the guy spending minutes trying to remove them with a screw driver, which risk breaking them and dissentious the foam padding.

Footstep 2 – Once you have removed the within panel, you should take access to the door lock actuators. Unscrew the three screws that told it in identify:

Step 3 – There is a wire connector on the actuator, remove information technology by pulling, Not PUSHING the connector tab

Stride four – You tin can immediately take the actuator apart even though there's nonetheless a cable continued to the door handle. Start by removing the rut sealed pins with a wire cutter but Do Not cut the whole pin off. Just squeeze lightly at the plastic effectually the pin then pry upwards, and the melted plastic should popular off as a ring.

At present employ a screw commuter and carefully pry open the retainers on the sides of the actuator. Takes a bit of elbow grease to pull the cap apart, but at that place's no fob to information technology. Even if a tab or 2 breaks, you can nevertheless mucilage things back in.

Step 5 – Once the cover is off, confirm that the door lock in in fact working by pulling and pushing the cable that connects to the door lock. The end of that cable has an L shaped pivot, not the ball shaped joint.

Then information technology's fourth dimension to replace the motor. Yous'll run across the motor that's attached to the actuator's cover. It comes off hands by prying with a screw driver. The fob now is to pry off the worm gear from the motor and attach information technology to the new one. You might demand to cut the shaft off the new motor to make things work. Sorry I did non perform this step as I ended up fixing the motor itself.

Pace 6 – (optional) Gear up the motor if you lot're a cheap bounder and don't desire to spend the $v. %image_alt% With your pliers, pry open the side tabs that are holding the cease cap. It helps to mount the motor on a vise.

In one case the end cap is off, make clean the brushes with brake cleaner or alcohol, then remove and wrap the thermo protection plate with aluminum foil. This will make the motor work again, just at present the motor can potentially burn upwards if the lock is stuck. I didn't know the motor'southward size until I opened the actuator, and now I don't want to look for one to ship, so I went with this cheap route. For the rest of you, I highly suggest spending that $v and take a new motor ready earlier you lot outset.

If you lot accept a 12v power supply, feed 12v straight to the motor on both polarities and make sure it's working.

Step seven – Fourth dimension to put everything back together. I suggest using some mucilage on the pins of the actuator, or even on the sides of the casing. Endeavour flexible glue like Broth or Gorilla glue.

Step viii – Test for functionality. Connect the wire harness to the actuator and try locking/unlocking with the remote. The wire that goes to the door lock should pop in and out. If it's not happening, chances are the white plastic tab inside the actuator is out of place and it'due south a elementary fix.

Step 9 – Install the door lock actuator back. Recollect TO CONNECT THE WIRE HARNESS!

Pace x – Install door panels. In the door panel removal video, the tech installed the power window unit before installing the inside door console, but yous can salve fourth dimension past just putting the within door console in place and and then screwing the power window unit dorsum on. Start with the power window motor. Put i hand behind the console to guide the motor so the holes marshal. After you lot spiral the bolts in by mitt, guide the ability window rails in a similar fashion. Might have a fleck of pushing but information technology'south very straight frontward. As soon as the inside panel is installed, test your window and make sure it's working.

FINISH

Hope this assistance whoever's having issues with their locks. Compared to fixing that damn manual outcome with the valve body, this is a cake walk. Big thanks to all the people who committed to those threads by helping me ready my manual without having to spend thousands!

Cheers,
-Derek

Additional Specs & Photos of Actuator Motor by EddyMaxx

Specification:
-MPN: FC-280PC-22125
-Model: FC-280
-Dimensions (not including shaft): thirty.5mm x 24.2mm x xviii.3mm
-Round shaft dimensions: 9mm long
-Operates on 12 VDC nominal
-No load speed: 13,100 RPM
-No load current: 110 mA
-Recommended operating voltage range 8-16V DC
-Quantity: 1 pc

Total load (maximum efficiency @ 12VDC) performance characteristics:
-Speed: 12,500 RPM
-Current: 780 mA
-Torque: 49 g-cm (4.76 mN-m)
-Power output: 5.71 Watts
-Stall torque: 393 g-cm (38.6 mN-chiliad)
-Stall current: v.56 Amperes