broken wire to rear hatch
05 Outback other day, noticed that the rear hatch handle wasn't returning after opening. Assumed some cruddy rust situation and sprayed some rust relief/ lubricant on either side of the handle since access would seem to require disassembling way too much.. Next day all seemed ok.
Now the curious coincidence or cause of the original handle not returning??
Today, I noticed that the hatch wasn't locking/unlocking either from the door switch or the key fob.
Found a post describing broken wire in
update:
finally got around to soldering that broken black wire in the left side but that didn't fix the issue.
took a closer look on the right side bundle of wires coming from the body to the hatch and there were two wires broken in this harness
the wires broke very close to the body so I had to pull the wires out of the rubber boot to be able to solder another piece of wwire into the mix but now it works fine
