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bradley martin

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Can anyone tell me what's involved in replacing the driver's door jamb swith on a '96 Fi50? A few weeks ago the headlight on, key in ignition buzzer started chirping constantly so I disconnected the buzzer, I can easily live without the buzzer but find it a pain not having the courtesy light. If I remove the kick panel and the emergency brake, is there enough room to remove the wiring plug and the nut inside the pillar? Thanks in advance for any help
 
Find a deep socket that fits and unscrew it, there's NO nut inside the pillar.
 
That is good news. What about the wires that run to it? I tried yesterday unscrewing it as you said but it felt like maybe the wires were twisting round and round so I quit until I got an understanding of what I was dealing with.
 
IIRC, the end of the switch where the connector is may swivel so as not to twist the wires?

Even if the wires twist, it doesn't thread in very far.

Remove the switch, keep the wires twisted, switch the plug to the new switch and install it, and the wires will be about back where they were.
 
(quoted from post at 15:14:55 12/07/15) Can anyone tell me what's involved in replacing the driver's door jamb swith on a '96 Fi50? A few weeks ago the headlight on, key in ignition buzzer started chirping constantly so I disconnected the buzzer, I can easily live without the buzzer but find it a pain not having the courtesy light. If I remove the kick panel and the emergency brake, is there enough room to remove the wiring plug and the nut inside the pillar? Thanks in advance for any help
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Something seems off here, it seems to me that if the switch was bad causing the buzzer to activate then the courtesy light would also be on wouldn't it?
 
As I understand it, the buzzer requires current from 2 sources to cause it to sound (headlights, either door, or key in ignition). The door switched have 3 wires each (hot, buzzer, dome lite??) At any rate, I replaced the switch as per Bob's instructions and the dome light is back working. I have plugged the buzzer back in and so far, it is working properly. That's not to say that it won't start chirping while driving somewhere in the near future.
 
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