Hi All,
Last winter (Dec '05) - I was out of station and my camry's (96 LE 4 cyl auto) battery died on me (i was out on a vacation for 3 weeks). I had AAA replace my battery when i came back.
Since then, my power door locks seem to be in a world of their own. They keep locking and unlocking themselves once the vehicle starts at no-predictable triggers.
When i tried to observe some patterns, it seemed it was related to the gear-change - but was not consistent enough.
Now on a recent long drive, i had to keep the wipers running through the length of the drive (6 hours) - and the door-unlock/lock event seemed to be triggered by the to-fro motion of the wiper. The faster the wiper interval, the worse it got !
I have never had such problems before the battery was changed. I called in AAA yet again, and they confirmed all the battery connections are done right.
A local dealer wants a 120$/hr (for as many hours) - to determine the problem and non-toyota dealers don't deal with this apparently !
Is there any connection between battery change and door locks, and between wipers, door locks ?
Thanks for any pointers !