Fiesta boot won't open from keyfob or dash button

General_query

colino wrote: »

If you can hear something moving, the power is getting to the solenoid. My money is on the short cable that has stretched and no longer moves the latch enough to open. Either replace or tie a knot in it!

Errrrr.... how?! It's that tight there is no room to get my big fumbly hands in, and the cable even when "unattached" only gives like 5mm

Weird_Nev

Leave the lock where it is.
Those 4 pin connectors are what I was on about. Clean up the contact on the flat bits, just give them a quick rub with some wire wool or sandpaper. see if that helps.

General_query

Weird_Nev wrote: »

Leave the lock where it is.
Those 4 pin connectors are what I was on about. Clean up the contact on the flat bits, just give them a quick rub with some wire wool or sandpaper. see if that helps.

Thanks Weird Nev, but I never even saw anything that looks like those 4 pin connectors. Where are they meant to be? It's hard to believe there's not one photo of the inside of a Ford Fiesta boot on Google

This is really frustrating me.

Weird_Nev

Oh right. Bottom of the sill, near the lock, and bottom edge of the boot lid I think. If you can't see them, yours may be a later model without. The wiring will be in the rubber boot that goes from roof to boot at the hinge edge.
I really think you need an auto electrician onto it. They can test grounds and continuities.

General_query

Weird_Nev wrote: »

Oh right. Bottom of the sill, near the lock, and bottom edge of the boot lid I think. If you can't see them, yours may be a later model without. The wiring will be in the rubber boot that goes from roof to boot at the hinge edge.
I really think you need an auto electrician onto it. They can test grounds and continuities.

Thanks. Mine must definitely be a later model: 2004 (54) 1.4LX 5 door Fiesta.

MX5huggy

On my puma (read fiesta). I have these problems, the key has never worked in my ownership. The button always needed 3 or 4 presses to get the boot open. It now does not work at all so I have some string running from the mechanical wire the opens the lock to the back seat. Problem solved. I use high quality string because it's a Puma.

dgates87

Hi, My 54 plate ford fiesta is doing exactly the same. key and dash button not working. when pressed i can hear something trying to work but to no result. doesn't work for 90% of the time but then intermittently does open.

did you every find a solution for yours??

any advise would be greatly appreciated.

General_query

dgates87 wrote: »

Hi, My 54 plate ford fiesta is doing exactly the same. key and dash button not working. when pressed i can hear something trying to work but to no result. doesn't work for 90% of the time but then intermittently does open.

did you every find a solution for yours??

any advise would be greatly appreciated.

Nope, never did find a solution and never got round to taking it in anywhere. Mine doesn't open 100% of the time

Can't afford to take a day off and pay someone @ £45 an hour to have a look, especially since my local garage couldn't fix it (but to be fair, didn't charge me!).

Anyone else help please?

I've also had 2 punctures within 5 weeks and despite two new tyres, wheel balancing and tracking done, it still feels like I am driving on hexagonal wheels and it is so bumpy to drive

Just remembered my last MOT had an advisory "slight power steering leak" noted too. Any connection? I have topped up with power steering fluid myself, but still wobbly to drive and bumpy with my CD player jumping, dashboard vibrating and feeling every bump on the roads...

colino

You really need to have your car looked at by a friendly, local, independent. Forget the power steering weep and the boot lock for the moment, your car sounds like one or more of your shockers have gone and need replaced asap.

Marvel1

colino wrote: »

You really need to have your car looked at by a friendly, local, independent. Forget the power steering weep and the boot lock for the moment, your car sounds like one or more of your shockers have gone and need replaced asap.

If the shocker was what happened to me, it dropped and rubbed against the tyre, and drivig to my local garage - a minute drive, I was driving 5mph or less and you could smell the tyre "burning".

I was VERY lucky it dropped as I just moved off from my home and not the motorway I was going to use!

Get it seen too tomorrow.

P.S. I have the same excat problem on my boot, a 2004 Ford Fiesta, never got it fixed as the key works.