Choose you're pattern door locks carefully!

[beelzibus]

Yes Passat 3B. I've had plenty of original door locks stick shut, but no aftermarket locks. But it doesn't surprise me. I don't really want to have to strip the door again so soon, and in terms of opening and shutting it's fine, unlike the original. No wiring short cut I can take to get around it? If it is prudent to get the lock apart on on the bench, is it easy enough to sort the position contact issue or a nightmare? I've never had one of these locks apart.

[Crasher]

I have tried to take them apart and bits seem to fly everywhere but being as people are paying me to mess around trying to fix a part I don’t tend to as you can easily burn up half or more of the cost of a new part with no guarantee of success and then YOU are then legally bound to cover the warranty responsibility where these days people EXPECT that to be two years.

[Gary03]

There really is no 'wiring work around' to be honest, only removing the puddle light bulb that you've already done. They're quite easy to take to bits, there's a couple of 'how too's' on YouTube that will give you confidence to have a go. Plenty seem to have the solder joints fail where the plug attaches, you'll see this inside if you take one to bits but of the 3 or 4 I've taken apart and not including the rubbish at the beginning of this thread that's gone straight in the bin, I've not seen the broken solder joint problem as yet! The cheap one I got to replace that one has been working as expected now for a couple of months.
This won't be the last time I strip one of these doors as my Mrs' B5.5 also doesn't know that the passenger door is open or closed - all original locks on 190'000 miles.
As an aside, I have also known these cars to have broken wires in the door shut area where the harness flexes.

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[Crasher]

And that is the difference between fixing your own car and being paid to fix someone else’s.

[beelzibus]

Which is why I rarely do paid work, it's just too much hassle. This was a freebie for a very close friend, I suspect he'll live with the dash indicator if there's no way round it.