4/28/2023 0 Comments 2013 ford edgeAnnoyance is gone - good riddance!Ī separate/improved switch design is always a possibility - but without actually taking the door apart to get a first-hand look at the design (as well as available space!) - its hard to see if an improvement could be made to the current design. ![]() 25" terminal ring, placed terminal ring around one of the grounding bolts.and TA-DA!! Now when I open the passenger door - there is NO door ajar icon warning anymore. ![]() So I soldered the other end of my black wire to a. I removed the plastic cover that covered the driver door threshold (which also runs up the the side of the door opening to the roof latch release lever) - which exposed two metal bolts that serve as ground contacts for other electrical circuits. So I removed my jumper wire and soldered a ~18" 20awg black wire I had to the other end of the 1" stubby wire exiting the connector. So thats how the wiring has to be: each of the four pins I listed in my earlier post have to be connected to ground in order for the car to think the door is closed - and hence the door ajar icon will not be displayed. So I stripped about 1/8" from the 1" stubby wire exiting the connector housing and attached a jumper wire to it and touched the other end to ground.and sure enough - the icon disappeared! And the front passenger door ajar icon was displayed on the dash. So I removed the harness from the BCM, and cut the white wire coming out of pin 5 about 1" away from the connector housing (since the front passenger door is the one I'm having the problem with). Or perhaps one of you will beat me to the punch?! I'll repost to this forum when I've had the chance to cut the wire and determine if the switch is N/O or N/C. Hopefully I'll have some time sometime this week to cut the wire and see what happens. I haven't had the opportunity to sever the passenger front wire yet to see if the door sensor switch is a N/O or N/C (normally open or closed) so its a 50/50 chance that simply cutting the wire will disable the warning.or I'll have to short each of these pins to ground to disable it. I'm not sure if the image I found on the DVD is the connector or the socket, so for reference: pin 1 is violet pin 13 is NOT USED pin 14 is green/orange and pin 26 is white/green. Pin 21 - yellow - passenger rear ajar switch Pin 9 - green/violet - driver front ajar switch On this 26-pin harness: pin 5 - white - passenger front ajar switch ![]() ![]() This is the connector is located in the upper left corner of the BCM, above the row of F1, F2, F3, F4 fuses. I have since found the following info: there is a 26-pin harness that plugs into the Body Control Module (BCM) (where the fuses are). (That old Win XP laptop in the closet is now good for something again!) I have the Helms DVD of schematics/connector pin-outs and such - a WORTHY investment, even though it doesn't work on Win 7/8. We don't have children so my plan is to completely disable the sensor - we'll obviously know if the door is not latched! Currently, just the front passenger door is acting up, and this is the only door I'll "modify" at this time. I did find a mediocre YouTube video of the complete disassembly of the door to gain access to the switch but it was almost a 45 minute process - and to what end? Put another inferior specified/designed switch in its place?! I'm a mechanical engineer and thats just insane to me!! I love working with my hands but thats just a pure waste of time. My driver door sensor quit working while still under warranty so they replaced the switch passenger door switch started acting up this past winter and we've been putting up with it ever since. HA! Great minds think alike! I've been fighting with this for a long time now and its finally warm enough to fight this on my 2011 Edge.
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