Kind of a long story but I lost the wire on the passenger side of my 87 Targa. Pulled the switch and there was nothing on the other end. BUMMER. For future reference there is ONLY one way to tackle this problem. First of all the wire doesn't drop down into the abyss, it feeds from above. My natural instinct was to think the wire would drop down, and that's where I started fishing around with a wire. Did that for a while and the fishing wire broke and then I had a loose piece of fish wire in the door frame. I'm going backwards fast!
After checking out this thread I made a trip to the Harbor Freight (purveyor of all cheap tools that you use once in a blue moon). I found a package of two flexible neon lights and some magnets, things are getting desperate.
The light was really useful...for fishing out the old fish wire. I was able to place it into the switch hole and shine into the door channel...and there she was. I was able to fish it out with a coat hanger. Next the primary objective, the switch wire. The real key here was to remove the carpet panel to open access to a hole that leads to the door jam channel.
It actually is pretty open on the passenger side and it was pretty straightforward to fish a coathanger through the door switch into and through the opening, tape to the wire to the switch wire, and pull through. Success!!!!
Got the switch cleaned up with a dremmel knock off from HF and we were good to go. Thanks for all the great insights from this forum. Couldn't have done it without you.
