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Don't cut the rubber boot. You can manipulate it and pull it out if you are careful. I did this on my '96 Camry. Every single one of the wires inside the rubber boot - where the flexing occurs when the door is opened and closed - were brittle and cracked - some wires broke and others simply shorted each other out.
I was too cheap to buy a new wiring harness, so I cut out all of the bad wires and soldered in new wires, and used heat shrink tubing to insulate the solder joints. I kept the solder joints outside the "flex zone". There are about 12-15 wires per door.
Not sure if this is a common problem on the '96 Camry, but I suspect that it must be because over a period of 3-4 years, I have had to replace all the wires inside the rubber boots on all four doors. Over time the original wires cracked and either shorted or simply broke and the window would not work. It is a pretty easy repair. I think it took me about 2-2.5 hours per door.
Last edited by dz63; 08-11-2008 at 08:10 PM.
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