{"id":199,"date":"2010-03-07T21:34:11","date_gmt":"2010-03-07T21:34:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/autotechdiagnostics.com\/?p=199"},"modified":"2010-03-07T21:34:11","modified_gmt":"2010-03-07T21:34:11","slug":"2001-bmw-330ci-trunk-ajar-light-on-convertible-top-doesnt-open","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/autotechdiagnostics.com\/?p=199","title":{"rendered":"2001 BMW 330ci Trunk Ajar Light ON &#8211; Convertible Top Doesn&#8217;t Open"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The owner of the vehicle stated his trunk ajar light would not turn off and the convertible top would not open. The shop already installed a latch and told me they inspected the wiring harness. <\/p>\n<p>Fault codes were stored in the CVM but none proved to be helpful.<\/p>\n<p>I went directly to the latch and backprobed pin 2. My DVOM displayed 0 volts. I found the harness inside the trunk on the body side, backprobed the same wire and found 12 volts. <\/p>\n<p>While monitoring the light on the dash indicating the trunk was open I toggled the wire to ground. The light went off. I then had the shop owner operate the top with this wire grounded and the top functioned.<\/p>\n<p>I pulled the harness away from the trunk hinge and tugged on the wires. What did I find.. broken wires in the rubber conduit.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/autotechdiagnostics\/4415114526\/\" title=\"DSCN2393a by Automotive Diagnostic Resources, on Flickr\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/farm3.static.flickr.com\/2768\/4415114526_e62792f481.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" alt=\"DSCN2393a\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The owner of the vehicle stated his trunk ajar light would not turn off and the convertible top would not open. The shop already installed a latch and told me they inspected the wiring harness. Fault codes were stored in &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/autotechdiagnostics.com\/?p=199\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3,15],"tags":[102,104,103,105],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/autotechdiagnostics.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/199"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/autotechdiagnostics.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/autotechdiagnostics.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/autotechdiagnostics.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/autotechdiagnostics.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=199"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"https:\/\/autotechdiagnostics.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/199\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":712,"href":"https:\/\/autotechdiagnostics.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/199\/revisions\/712"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/autotechdiagnostics.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=199"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/autotechdiagnostics.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=199"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/autotechdiagnostics.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=199"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}