So me and the gf get in the xj and when I open the door I notice that my cargo light is flickering, which sucks because they're led. So I think nothing of it and we start a nice drive down Colfax to the dollar tree and all of a sudden my door locks actuate, I thought she did it. Then it happened again and again annnd again. Then it did it all the way to the Walmart. But o. the drive home I don't think it happened. I've tried searching the forums to no avail. Anyone have any clue. Thanks in advance guys.

 

Broken wires in the D door loom.

 

Did the previous guidance work? I've had door locks issues with both of the 2000s I've owned. They both that problems with the springs in the child locks going bad (basically, the child lock function was permenantly on). I found a post that showed the correct two wires to splice together to override that function altogether. If I end up with toddlers, I may look into removing the jumper and/or getting replacement child lock switches.

The first one had the door wire problem mentioned in the first post. In my case, the broken wire was causing the lock system to behave as if the lock button was being constanly pressed.

In the second I just replaced all the wires in the door loom with a thicker gauge to spare myself the headaches later.

 

My doors would unlock every time I hit a bump and when I would hit the door or hatch kinda hard. It turns out when I took the dome light down the wires were shorting out on the ceiling.

 

Thanks for all the input guys, I work as a tech for a shop and being the only tech others means I haven't had time to loom at my own issues. But it seems like it may be in the passenger side switch. Like half the times my passenger side door gets shut the locks activate, or when I brake or hit a bump, sometimes. I'll loom into the cargo dome light tomorrow if I run out of cars to work on.

 

This! Or it could be an exposed wire underneath the steering column. I had the "ghost locks" problem and found it to be an exposed wire. A little electrical tape fixed it.

 

I had the door locks freaking out on my 2000 too and it turned out to be the passenger door window/lock switch. This switch is also the control module for the locking system.