[V8] passenger door panel removal and frustrating elec issue

chris brown sacheldog at hotmail.com
Wed Jan 30 19:06:59 PST 2013


Hello
 well i ordered a replacement side view mirror assy and it arrived today  (39.00$ ebay)   !!! entire assy. 
   i'm removing the door panel right now and i cant remember what size torque/allen to use to remove arm rest. There appears to be 3. 
on a separate note i was driving home from work today and i pressed the memory seat button. The seat moved a little but there appeared to be a short in my driver seat. was not working properly but trying. As i was doing this the passenger door button for the window all of the sudden light up. It has been dark forever. As i jiggled with the memory button that light would seem to do a little dance too. Then to make matters worse about 10 minutes later i began to get a constant chatter from a relay under passenger mat. I switched it with another relay and got the same chatter. After messing with the seat a little more i got the relay to stop chattering. I have not put it all back together yet because i'm certain of a short somewhere. Maybe in my armrest because the on/off rectangular button always is alluminated. And also noticed the passenger door lighting up when i pressed that button on driver door. 
 The 3rd. thing is rear windows don't go down and are not lit up and rear doors, or driver door panel. Never have lit. When i put a known good switch in it, it still wont light up.   Rear cig lighter does not work. Tested both the 25 amp fuses for continuity and they were good.  Is there something other than those two 25 amp fuses to check that controls rear windows and cig lighter? 
 When i press for the window to go down on driver panel i notice a drain (very minimal) on elec system. When i press on either of the back door buttons i get no drain.   I was hoping to get a little advice on this. 
 		 	   		  


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