door locks on 97 grand voyger

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Larry - 20 Dec 2006 02:20 GMT

Is was wandering how difficult and expensive it is to buy and replace one
drivers door and both rear sliding door actuators, passenger door one was
replaced when still under warranty. They lock and un-lock when ever they
want. I would'nt mind tearing into the doors and replacing them if it not to
hard to remove the door panels to get to them.

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damnnickname - 20 Dec 2006 12:43 GMT

if the doors lock and unlock on there own it isnt the acuators. check both
sliding door ajar switches.

Glenn Beasley
Chrysler tech

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Larry - 22 Dec 2006 02:15 GMT

It only happens when parking and locking up the van.I hit the fob to lock
the doors and some doors won't lock If I keep hitting the fob enough times
usually the bad ones will lock after enough tries, the one that was already
replaced under warranty and never gives a problem. Just need help I trying
to replace them myself, how hard to remove door panels and the linkage in
the door and how much does the acuaters cost at the dealer and after market.
I disabled the autolock feature so it has nothing to do with the bcm parked
and engine off just locking up.

> if the doors lock and unlock on there own it isnt the acuators. check both
> sliding door ajar switches.
>
> Glenn Beasley
> Chrysler tech

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Ed D - 24 Dec 2006 03:03 GMT

I have same problem with my 97 Grand caravan. I stopped using the key fob as
I wasn't sure if I locked the doors or not.

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> It only happens when parking and locking up the van.I hit the fob to lock
> the doors and some doors won't lock If I keep hitting the fob enough
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>> Glenn Beasley
>> Chrysler tech

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Larry - 27 Jan 2007 03:43 GMT

Its been awhile since I had a chance to work on the doors,I cleaned the
contacts on the door pillars and they been working great for about a week
now so for no more proplems with them, took about a minute each door and so
far so good no problems Thanks for the good advice.

>I have same problem with my 97 Grand caravan. I stopped using the key fob
>as I wasn't sure if I locked the doors or not.
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>>> Glenn Beasley
>>> Chrysler tech

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Mike Y - 29 Jan 2007 13:16 GMT

Not on my 97GC, but on my older Caravan I had problems. I did the
cleaning trick on the contacts, but they evidently got corroded down deep,
and while I could make them work with a good polish, I ended up
replacing them for a permanent fix. It wasn't hard to do, if I remember
right, they just popped out and had a push on connector on the back.

> Is was wandering how difficult and expensive it is to buy and replace one
> drivers door and both rear sliding door actuators, passenger door one was
> replaced when still under warranty. They lock and un-lock when ever they
> want. I would'nt mind tearing into the doors and replacing them if it not to
> hard to remove the door panels to get to them.

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