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Old 09-08-2014, 09:58 PM
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How do GPCMs fail?

I don't know how useful this info is, but...

After replacing my GPCM tonight, I decided to take the old one apart and see if I can figure out why it stopped working on the passenger's side. Popping the bottom cover off reveals a circuit board, encapsulated in some gooey stuff (the technical term), like this:



Note the bundle of five traces close together on each side. A close up of the green (drivers, and working, in my case) side looks like this:



On the black (passenger's, and broken in my case) side, the traces appear to have fused together:



I suppose these can fail in other ways, too, but I bet this is common.

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Awesome forensic pics! Somebody rep him, I'm in jail.
 
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reps added!
 
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Old 09-09-2014, 12:35 AM
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Awesome forensic pics! Somebody rep him, I'm in jail.
Got him! The information is good for all to use in the future. Not shocking they fail that way! Poor design if you ask me!
 
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