Thread: My 16 year itch

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Well this past Sunday was another world wind adventure. The wife said it was too hot here to take the cars out for a spin so I get a hair across my ass and say the hell with it I'm going out for a spin myself. I have this issue in front of my garage (I need some fill because it is too big of a drop off for the cars). My next door neighbor was suppose to get some gravel for me but it never happened. You know you are the only person you can count on. So I had picked up all the boards in anticipation of getting the gravel so I had to put them all back. I guess I didn't have them lined up just right and the car fell off the boards and whacked the front fender (luckily no damage) so I continue backing it out and I hadn't noticed I was stuck on a board. I watched in horror as the front of the car came up and slowly back down (sorta pole vaulting the front end to the left dangerously close to the garage door). So I shut the car off and just sat there for a second or two when all of a sudden I smell something I'm all too familiar with. I think to myself...Is that gas??? I hop out and get into the garage and there is this huge puddle of gas. I decide to turn on the fan and cool off and allow the car to cool a bit too because I was starting to do a slow burn. The previous owner did say he just replaced the fuel pump because it was leaking when a potential buyer came to look at it. Had to jack it up a bit and got the boards under it and drove it back into the garage. I found the leak (just a loose clamp). Okay attempt number 2 to get the car out went better than the first attempt and I was off to Bob's house. He asks me if I'm having fun driving it around and I told him it took me almost 2 hours to get it out of the garage! And I've only driven it 5 minutes today (about how long it takes to get to his house). So I tell him the whole story and he just shakes his head and says only you! So I head off to the parts store to look for some gas shocks for my trunk lid only to get there and find out they were closed. It was sunday after all and I didn't realize just how late it was. So I head back home when all of a sudden the F$@%&ING door opens up again!! I distinctly heard the door "CLICK" and then open. There has to be a bad wire or a relay. I swear I'm going to drill out the doors and put the handles back on this car before it kills me!!

Originally Posted by BIG-JIM

So I head back home when all of a sudden the F$@%&ING door opens up again!! I distinctly heard the door "CLICK" and then open. There has to be a bad wire or a relay.

I'd say you've got a short, and the first place I'd look is at the hinge side of the door, where the wiring transitions between the body and the door. That said, it could be anywhere that you've got some flex. I'd also want to know if they switched the hot supply to the door SV, or if they switched the ground. Could be either way, but a switched ground seems to be more common on the instructions for the kits. Just my $0.02.