The rear door hatch no longer opens due to a fault with the wiring running throught he loom on the top of the door between the door and the car. Can anyone tell me how to open the door and also which side of the door does the wiring for the lock run so I can try to fix it. 1997 Ford Galaxy - Driver's door window and mirror. Ford galaxy vw sharan front door driver side wiring Loom Ford galaxy vw sharan front door driver side wiring Loom. Condition is Used. Dispatched with Royal Mail 1st Class. This is compatible with 4 door buttons and 2 door buttons.
The electric window on my driver's door stopped working a couple weeks back. As soon as it did I knew what it was, it had given me a couple of warnings before, plus I could see that somebody had been in there (the wiring loom in the door gaiter) previously to make 'repairs' -not very good ones, because the multiplug locking ring and door sealing 'grommet' were busted. And when I looked closer, the previous soldered repair had failed, the trouble was because it had been repaired previously so close to the multiplug on a couple of wires there just wasn't enough cable left to have another go at repairing.
I know (with some special tools) it is possible to remove the pins from the multiplug and equally, repair kits do exist for this purpose with pre-crimped terminals on short lengths of wire, though I'm not sure if they're readily available outside of the automotive trade:Anyway, with this total amount of bodgery and damage previously inflicted on it I decided to renew the complete loom. Secondhand ones IMO are a waste of money as chances are they'll be equally as knackered as what you're trying to replace.
It looks like the wiring loom is now obsolete from Ford (I've got the Ghia model with controls for all four electric windows on the drivers door switch cluster as well as the electric mirror adjuster joystick)- when we checked with Ford it was shown as 'referred to Germany, expected to backorder', meaning Ford Europe have no current stock- and on a 10+ year old car, it's unlikely they'll produce any more so it's as good as obsolete- FYI, the Ford part number was 1331192, the retail price about £150 plus VAT. Not to be deterred, and with some previous advice from Mirez in mind I went and checked with SEAT for price and availability for a wiring loom for a similar age Alhambra- the main difference to be aware of was that the Alhambra loom had a few extra wires for the exterior (either folding or with built in side repeater indicators- I can't remember which) mirrors, but was otherwise basically the same. When I stripped the door down on the Galaxy to check the old wiring loom, it had VW's reference of 7M3 974 950 EC on it (you couldn't order this part from VW as it was made specifically for the Galaxy and not used in either the VW or SEAT variants).
The Alhambra / Sharan equivalent loom carried the part number 7M3 974 950 ET- very close to the Ford loom part number with a slight difference at the end denoting some level of revision. The loom from SEAT was £172 with the VAT, not any cheaper than Ford which surprised me, but at least it was still available.Looking to see if I could save a few quid, I looked online and managed to come up with somebody in who could supply the same part, isn't it daft that I could buy it from Germany, pay for shipping and paypal currency adjustment into Euros and still be able to buy it for over 40 quid less than I could from SEAT here? So I ordered it, it turned up about 3-4 days after ordering and I fitted it yesterday- all sorted.
The VW / SEAT loom is indeed a carbon copy of my original one even down to all the cable colour coding, the connectors are all exactly the same, the only difference is a few extra cables for the door mirror which are unused on my car. So overall I'm pretty chuffed with that. I still think the price is ridiculous for a bloody wiring loom though!As an alternative, you can also buy an aftermarket repair plug from - see which comprises of the plug, gaiter and door sealing cap complete with a load of short lengths of wire prefitted with crimp connectors, the idea being you just cut your old plug and wires off and crimp this repair piece to the existing loom, it's still quite expensive but might be worth considering if you've got a lot of busted wires to contend with, or somebody else's previous bodgery. The price of either a new loom or even the repair piece will put most people off, understandably so on what are now 10+ year old cars but it's an option if you find yourself unable to repair what you've got.
My 1998 seat alhambra (almost a galaxy!) has developed the following problem with the drivers electric window. With the double switch on drivers door, the drivers window will not open or close, but i can open the passengers window with this switch, but it will not close passenger window, using drivers double switch.The passenger window switch will open and close the passengers electric window.From posts in this forum, it may be broken wires, if i remove door card can anyone advise which wire / connections i would need to test and how.Also if it is broken wires how do you remove door plug and rubber boot. The plug on the A post unscrews slightly then pulls out!
If you remove the switch you can see what wires are used and bell them out that way, but off the top of my head the commons (feed) red yellow and the up and down are red/green and brown/blue, but dont hold me that its been a while since i stripped my door down!As for testing the wires set the meter to ohms it may buzz when the test probes are put together in this setting? Buzz out the cables fom end to end and hopefully find the bad ones! Also give the cables a little tug to see if they pull apart at where the break is! Dont pull them out of the connector though.
Finally got to my window problemRemoved door card and pulled back boot on cable found red green wire broken.Now need to fix -What is the best way to splice a new wire into door loom, ie what type of connector.How do you remove plug at door pillar end and how do you remove wire from plug and when new wire is fitted do you need a special connector for plug.I can only see one wire is broken, in haynes manual it says its 2.5mm diameter do you need to use only 2.5mm to repair.When i repair this wire and the window still does not work can anyone advise what other chacks may be necassary.