Next upgrade, was another set of new tires.
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Then came a door lock repair. For some time, there had been an intermittent failure of the drivers door lock via remote and switch in some cases. I replaced the door lock actuator motor by removing the actuator and replacing the motor inside. Then I also replaced the key battery. Since the drivers door lock gets so much more use than the rest, hopefully the others still have much life left in them. It is nice to have reliable door locks cause it bothered me to not be able to trust the remote operation for locking the doors.
This method of repair is much cheaper than replacing the entire lock actuator and its not that hard to do with epoxy to reseal the actuator. There are threads on MUD about how to do this repair. The motors can be found relatively cheap online and I carry a spare. I have a little box of spare parts that I try to remove from the truck whenever I work on it and put back in whenever I go places. It also had a replacement battery for the key and these small bits are so handy to have on hand. Its easier to replace the used part and keep the spare that way I always know which one fits.
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