today we're going to fix the door lock
on an o1 Ford Escape sometimes the
electronic servo goes bad and when you
click lock or unlock or no matter what
you do the door won't open or it won't
lock sometimes you get lucky and it
freezes in the unlock on the unlock
position and you can still open the door
but it never locks it's always unlocked
the little electronic servo solenoid in
there goes bad we'll have some tips here
in a little bit on how to find that
servo economically at aftermarket one
and sometimes this servo goes bad and
you're in the locked position and so
then you can never open the door
so we're going to show you how to get in
there and unlock that door so you can
open it and fix it so let's get inside
the car and get that open here we are
inside the car first we're going to take
this cover off so we have room to lift
the door panel up and out a little bit
so we can reach down inside and manually
flip that lever and we'll try to get the
camera in there to show you first we got
to take the windshield wiper motor cover
off it's a black cover there with two
pieces they snap together sometimes you
need a little screwdriver to stick in
the crack to get it started or if you
have something a little more rounded
that you can slide in the crack and get
it started then you can get your fingers
in there and you can just pop it apart
by pulling it back it's just plastic
Clips so you don't want to pull too hard
on it but you got to give it a little
bit of a yank and there it goes
now we have a little bit of room to lift
this up over that hump area actually
curves around the backside of the lab so
you have to kind of pull it up and
forward towards the front of the car to
slide that plastic piece off there's six
clips in this area that we have to snap
out in this car they're already pretty
loose this car is a little bit easier
than others because it's got so many
miles on it but you got to give it a
little bit of yank to pop those clips
out so first we're going to pull this up
over the latch get our fingers
underneath it there and work that
plastic up over the latch and give it a
little bit of a yank now this came out a
little bit easier like I said because
those clips already popped out this car
has got 150,000 miles on it so it might
be a little harder on your car you've
got to give it a little bit of a Yank
okay so now we're going to take the
camera and zoom down in between that
panel and the door we'll be able to see
that lever I'm talking about that grey
box with the black arm sticking out of
it is the electric solenoid that's
failed for us so that's the solenoid
here's the lever you got to push that's
unlocked up that's locked that's
unlocked okay so we're back outside the
car here we can open it now it's
unlocked so just be careful if you're in
the garage not to hit the overhead
obviously and if you need to you can
leave it like this and still drive the
car around just remember that your hatch
doesn't lock so don't leave any
valuables in the car so here are the
four screws that you need to take out to
get that panel the rest of the way off
so we can get at that solenoid
you
slide it up a little bit and it'll come
off and fall out into your hands
here's those clips that sometimes the
metal retainer slides off the plastic
and it falls down in the door so you may
have to fish in the door and get those
and slide them back on the plastic tabs
looking up in the door here's the magic
box it's gone bad the solenoid two
screws or hold it in they come in from
the backside though so we have to drop
this bronze-colored bracket to get those
screws out there's two ten millimeter
nuts on this side here and two ten
millimeter nuts here on this side just
the camera and then a single Phillips
screw right in here and of course we
have to take the electrical connector
off here and a couple of those
connecting rods
so if Phillips to get that single screw
out then we'll use a flat blade to
unplug the electrical connector for the
two connectors with yellow fittings on
them we'll use a flat bladed screwdriver
to pop that fitting open and pull the
rod out and then for the green one we'll
use a needle nose pliers stick it in
behind and there's fingers on the
connect on the fitting you can squeeze
them together and then pull the fitting
down towards the floor and it will pop
right out
now we're going to just get those four
10 millimeter nuts off
you
once you can swing that whole assembly
down you can see the two Torx screws
that actually hold the solenoid into the
bracket so we'll back those two out and
then all we have to do is take the
connecting arm off
you
now we're ready to unhook the actuator
arm so we'll swing this around so we can
see the front side and that black arm
has an elongated pin that goes into
elongated hole so if you drop the
solenoid off a little bit turn it 90
degrees and jiggle it a little bit the
pin should come out of the hole there
and sometimes you gotta jiggle it just a
little bit and it'll pop out there's
that elongated pin you can see okay so
here's the OEM stock one and the only
way you can get this now is to order the
whole assembly from Ford which is two
hundred and fifty dollars I didn't care
for that too much doing a little bit of
internet searching I found an almost
identical one that fits in pretty well
it's got good reviews and it's about 50
bucks after you pay for shipping
there are a couple of things different
about it for one it has these wire
pigtails on it instead of the plug like
on the factory one but what we'll do is
we'll flatten these connectors and plug
them in to the female plugs that
normally plugs in here on the OEM one
the other difference is the plungers but
that's a pretty easy fix because they
actually snap off its slotted and you
can just snap this plunger off and
they're identical underneath there's the
slot on the OEM one wiggle it a little
bit as you pull on it and it'll pop
right off now you can put that plunger
on the new one and do the same thing
with the one on the new one pop it off
it's got that same fitting on it so now
you can take the OEM plunger and fit it
on to your new solenoid and just pops on
and we're good to go
here's the info on where I ordered that
solenoid from I'll put it in the comment
section too
so now we're ready to fit the new one
it's the reverse order of how we took
the old one out I'm going to start off
by getting that an elongated hole swing
it around get your two Torx screws set
in screw those down
you
now we're ready to fit the bracket up in
there and get those ten millimeter nuts
placed back on sorry about the camera
angle here kind of hard to see what
you're doing we get the ten millimeter
nuts all four of them tighten back up
next we'll get the connecting rods put
back in snap them into the fitting snap
the fitting clothes and the green one
just pop the pin back in several ways to
work the electrical connections if you
look at the factory plug you can see it
takes a little spades so you can flatten
the connectors that came on the new
solenoid trim them a little bit and
you're actually making little spades out
of them once you flatten them they
become too fat so you got to take a
shears or a side cutter and cut them a
little bit thinner so they'll fit in
there alternatively you could use wire
nuts or butt connectors and just cut the
wires and but connect them once I
flatten these and trim them a little bit
they were really snug so I'm not worried
about them falling out
so here you can see the actuator working
I'm going to get the key fob and click
it there you can see it lock and unlock
and that's what's supposed to be going
on inside the door when you either hit
the door lock switch or you use the key
fob lock and unlock
before we put the panel back on we're
going to check it and make sure it
functions correctly you may run into
this issue that you hit the lock button
and the door still opens and then you
hit unlock and the door actually locks
and won't open all that means is the
polarity is switched so all we got to do
is unplug the wires switch them and plug
them back in
one more check here now that we switch
the wires lock hit unlock and the door
opens all right we got it right now all
we got to do is put the panels back on
and put our tools away now we're ready
to put the panel back in we're going to
fit that edge up over the lock line up
these pins pop them in lift it up and
put those four screws in the bottom it's
a lot easier with the window open so
open the window before you put this in
you
now we're ready to put the windshield
wiper motor cover back on so we're just
going to shut the door open the window
and snap that guy back on done check it
everything works
sweet I'm excited to finally have this
done so thanks for watching if you have
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