Alarm Goes Off When Opening Trunk with Key '98 V70

Post by **bmdubya1198** » 23 Sep 2017, 18:32

abscate wrote: 23 Sep 2017, 14:32 You will need a sharp razor to open the sheath on the D pillar and find that nasty mess of broken wires

Luckily I have most of it opened already. Just hate pulling off the melted nasty electrical tape... yuck.

Post by **wizechatmgr** » 24 Sep 2017, 00:51

At least liquid electrical tape wasn't used

Post by **abscate** » 24 Sep 2017, 05:53

Just for laughs I will report something that might be useful here.

When you do this repair, you have the age old problem of how to heat shrink a harness when you can't access the wires due to the connector..

I've done this trick on Apple ear buds, computer PS, etc

Slice open one piece of heat shrink, oversize. Superglue the axial cut together. Now slice another piece, position the slice 180 degrees from first, superglue again.

Let dry one hour.

Now warm it up and shrink to fit.

Post by **bmdubya1198** » 24 Sep 2017, 07:15

abscate wrote: 24 Sep 2017, 05:53 Just for laughs I will report something that might be useful here.

When you do this repair, you have the age old problem of how to heat shrink a harness when you can't access the wires due to the connector..

I've done this trick on Apple ear buds, computer PS, etc

Slice open one piece of heat shrink, oversize. Superglue the axial cut together. Now slice another piece, position the slice 180 degrees from first, superglue again.

Let dry one hour.

Now warm it up and shrink to fit.

Good idea! I'll have to clean up all the wiring. Some are crimped, some are soldered. I'll have to solder and heat shrink all of the damaged wires soon.