Can anyone give me an idea as to how the RH (passenger’s
side LHD) door switch attaches to the car? Mine is loose,
and I would like to tighten it down so it gets a good
ground.
In reply to a message from rymes sent Sun 6 Jul 2014:
Mine are a little different than yours, so I have no direct
experience. Roger Mabry has been playing with these, but
he’s on a fishing trip and probably hasn’t seen your post.
Hopefully he will chime in.
I believe they just snap in…you might be able to prise it
out and expand the fingers that secure it. Clean the
surfaces to ensure a good ground.
BTW, these switches usually fail internally rather than via
a grounding problem. Exercising them whilst submerged in
solvent/lubricant often gets them working again.–
The original message included these comments:
Can anyone give me an idea as to how the RH (passenger’s
side LHD) door switch attaches to the car? Mine is loose,
and I would like to tighten it down so it gets a good
ground.
the door light switches do look a bit less insulated than on my SII, but
I suppose they still operate the same way. The usual problem is not the
contact of the switch housing, but the contact produced in the centre of
the switch when released. So far I got them all back to work - the last
time last week on the Jag’s rear passenger door by exercising it for
five minutes under liberal use of solvent and trying to rotate and
wiggle the centre pin to provoke some contact cleaning.
Better quality switches are screw-in, but yours seems to be pressed into
place. If it sits tight I don’t see a point in pulling it out. If it’s
loose anyhow you should be able to prise it out and sort of restore the
spring capacity of the switch body, maybe rather fix it in some other
manner, e.g. one layer of ducttape between switch and body (of course,
with additional ground contact!).
Can anyone give me an idea as to how the RH (passenger’s
side LHD) door switch attaches to the car? Mine is loose,
and I would like to tighten it down so it gets a good
ground.
In reply to a message from Robert Wilkinson sent Mon 7 Jul 2014:
Yes, they just attach with the friction connections. The
problems are with the bad connections inside the pillar at
the switch = bad/corroded connections.
Cleaning and exercising often helps at a lot. Finally have
all of them working in both Series 1 cars…
Putting a meter/test light on the switch and the ground
will let you know when all is well again.–
The original message included these comments:
I believe they just snap in…you might be able to prise it
out and expand the fingers that secure it. Clean the
surfaces to ensure a good ground.
BTW, these switches usually fail internally rather than via
a grounding problem. Exercising them whilst submerged in
solvent/lubricant often gets them working again.
