Hello everyone,,
My 1996 124 Diesel Kombi has intermittent door electrical problems.

Furthermore it looks as if the door might have been strained at some time. I'm in half a mind to change the loom inside the door. Other non Merc cars I've had experience with have a connector just inside the car itself somewhere around the base of the A post. This allows you to replace just the sub loom in the door.
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I would substitute this with a second hand item assuming new was pricey.

To save me from stripping bits of interior out in a futile search for something that does not exist can anybody please confirm the existence and position of the connector(s) if indeed there is such a thing

Many thanks,
Hardus1.

I know the early 124s do not have a master door connector. The body harness extends through the hose and terminates at each device in the door directly.

Unfortunately the engineers chose wire with a low strand count to cross over the hinge point. It will have something like 7 strands of fairly heavy wire to make up the required cross section.
The proper way to do this is use wire with many fine strands so that it does not experience metal fatigue as the door is opened and closed.

The best way to fix is to obtain some wire with a high strand count and splice a piece in where it goes through the hose. This is not easy as you're having to work in tight spaces.

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