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Mike V Posted on May 17, 2016
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Power Doors are not working properly.

Sometimes the buttons work, and sometimes they do not. Back doors do not lock at all, but the passenger side back door unlocks sometime. Where to I find the relay for the power doors, and how hard is it to replace it myself?

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If the relay was at fault none of the doors would work at all. I suggest you may have defective door lock actuator motors and stick door latches, they are very prone to this kind of failure if the door latch gets hard to activate from dirt or corrosion. Make the door latches move freely.

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