Vento wiring problems

[Alan Nicol]

Hi everyone just an update to my wiring woes, managed to remove a full harness from a donor car (5hrs), I don't know about Golfs but Vento is one harness for both sides, anyhow then removed mine and refitted replacement, not quite as long as I knew what to do and discovered short cuts on donor car, so far have managed to get both front door windows working both from drivers door and passengers door, back left window works from dash switch but won't work from door switch tried a number of switch's but no luck, central locking blows fuse each time left rear door lock connector is fitted, so I suspect this item was what started the problem, will change and see what happens, right rear won't work at all although it did stop sometime before the current problem.
Once I removed old harness it was burnt almost all the way to fuse box luckilly it stopped just ahead of this and hasn't created any apparent problems.
Rear brake lights now do not work so can't move shifter, I'm hoping it's only a fuse as that part of the wiring wasn't involved and was working whilst other issue was ongoing.
One question I have is that I have a nomad connector that I can't find it's mate, it's ancillary from main harness to fuse box, and I can't remember if it actually had one, it's female white with white wire any clues?
Thanks

[Alan Nicol]

Well things looking up, replaced every single fuse last night and managed to get everything working with the exception of the right rear window, even drove it around the block without any dramas and left over night with battery connected no apparent issues this morning.

Will replace door lock mechanism on Saturday and see if I can get central locking back otherwise I'll pull all plugs off and just lock manually.

One small problem I'm still having is that operating left rear window from door switch is intermittent, it has power and I've tried other switch's and it has worked since rectifying the main issue, but as I say it's intermittent, any ideas anyone?

Will get more into it over weekend again, hopefully will track down problem.

Cheers

[Alan Nicol]

Hi finally now have everything working properly again, seems problem started in door lock mechanism connector and spread, anyhow all back together and operating perfectly.

A very satisfying end as I had doubts at times it would ever work again.