Pug 306 door loom

[hondairder]

Hi all

New here and in need of some info.

My situation is as follows : I have a 306 with a faulty door loom. When i first experienced the problems i googled it and got a lot of suggestions to peel back the rubber on the door loom and see what it revealed. I did this and it revealed a plug with 14 wires in most of which were broke are breaking. I stripped the door panels off which had the socket for the plug with 14 wires going to that. The problem of the door looms failing seems quite frequent.

My plan is to bypass the plug and and using sutiable connecters, connect the 14 wires from the plug to the 14 wires from the socket.

The problem I am having is what wire to use. The plug contains 14 wires, 1 fine wire, 2 thicker wires and 11 medium wires.

The socket has 3 thick wires and 11 medium wires.

Im not an electricain (evidently) but my question is what wire do i use to join the plug wires and socket wires together.

My logic says if i was joining 2 lets say thick wires with a thin one, the thin one could melt / breakdown.

What I am contemplating is, so long as the wire I am using to join the 2 cables is thicker than either cable being joined I will be fine. When I say thicker I am referring to the copper diameter not the out sheath diameter.

I have already worked out which cable relates to which pin on both plug and socket so I know which 14 sets of 2 cables need joining. My problem is cable choice.

Your advise / help would be much appreciated.

Thanks

Simon

 

[Knobhead]

Have a look at Pug306.net Forums took less than 30 seconds to find on Google

 

[mouldy3]

I recently did this on my Zafira and used tri-rated cable as it is more flexible, it will need soldering though

 

[hondairder]

Thanks for that mouldy3.

You are probably more eletrically minded than me. How do you determine the correct cable to use?

Or is my therory correct? So long as i am joining the cables together with a piece of thicker copper cable than the cables I am joining - should this work / be safe?

Thanks Again

 

[vernam616]

I have extended knowledge on the 306's since owning 6 of them previously!

I had never had the problem of a door loom failing, however i know other people who have, most of the time it was the actual connector, unplug that from where the door meets the car (big black circular moulded plug), inside there you will more than likely see all the connections being green in colour, this is where the water has gotton in and oxidised

Try cleaning this connector as best you can with electrical contact cleaner and WD40 (isolate battery first) and then try pluggin back in

 

[vernam616]

Ignore above post i failed to read your original post correctly !

Personally i would solder them up and use heat shrink over the joints

 

[Adam W]

Do the wires still have the pins on the ends? If so they should just poke back into the connector.
If not I'd use waterproof crimps.

 

[hondairder]

Hi

Have unplugged the socket and all the pins were fine.

Have this evening just peeled back the rubber on the passenger side and 3 broken wires there also, that would explain the right passenger speaker and window control not working!


The driver side has 3 broken wires completely and 2 bearly being held together by a couple fo copper strands.


My main question is the wire. I am happy to tackle the job whether the joins be solder or crimp. Either way I intend to heat shrink also. But what wre do i need? OR what wire would do the job?

thanks for all your help so far

 

[Adam W]

Could you not just crimp the 2 ends together?
Otherwise multistrand cable. Presumably they're only control wires or for small motors so something like 1.5mm or even 1.0mm should be fine. Maybe even just a core taken out of a bit of flex.

 

[telectrix]

or buy a nissan or toyota

 

[Adam W]

I had a Nissan once. Never again. Jap ***p.