Remote Central Locking

[dj_dee99]

When the guy came to fit my alarm the other week, he told me that as the passenger door does not operate the central locking, it means he cannot set up remote central locking on the alarm!!! He reckons the passenger door has no motor if it doesn\'t operate the central locking.
 
Is he talking crap? Surely the fact that when I lock the door on the drivers side, the fact that it also locks the passenger side means there must be some form of motor over there, otherwise how would it be locking??
 
I\'d have thought he only has to connect the relevant wires to the drivers side and it\'s gonna operate the central locking, then?
 
This is the same guy who flooded my engine, so I already think he\'s a bit of a fool! :evillaugh

[Adriansturgess]

Not an expert on this but, as you say, there must be a motor (or solonoid?) in the passenger door or it couldn\'t lock itself. So he must be talking rubbish over this, at least, so could be talking rubbish in general.

[dj_dee99]

I think he originally wanted to get the job done quicker cuz it was raining & it\'d have took him longer if he had to remove door panels & feed wiring, etc. Just spoke to my mate & he has the same (Toad) alarm on his Mitsubishi L200. He said his doesn\'t operate the central locking from the passenger side, but he still has remote CL from his alarm fob.
 
Looks like when the guy comes back I\'m gonna make sure he does it properly!

[MikeLMR]

Theres no motor in the drivers door (why would there not be a motor in the passenger door ... who has the keys when they walk to a car ... driver or passenger)

What you need is an aftermarket central locking motor to fit in the drivers door. If he genuinely has never seen that setup before I\'d go somewhere else to have my alarm fitted as he can\'t have done that many before !!

[dj_dee99]

I already have central locking. But he just reckons he can\'t connect the alarm to it because it doesn\'t operate from both sides.

[Adriansturgess]

Good point..... :Hammer

[MikeLMR]

thats why you need to fit a new aftermarket motor to the drivers door, the motor moves the mechanism in the drivers door which then in turn triggers the standard switches which unlock the passenger door ... its a very common setup

[dj_dee99]

Oh.

How does the current set up work, then? I thought it operated in that way anyway. :3Confused

[MikeLMR]

its does but you move the linkage by turning the key

[probedb]

I was just going to post on this very topic.

Basically was told that the diagrams they have for the RX7 show that motors need to be fitted for remote central locking.

Only when I picked up the car the \'not as technical\' guy said they couldn\'t do it because the locks use cables like the boot latch instead of the metal bar that most cars use.

Is this crap? They fitted my turbo timer ok though. Just got to remove the Greddy one I don\'t need anymore.

[LRP]

i hav a toad 606i fitted and my works the central locking but yes they had to fit another solenid in the drivers door?

[Mr J.T]

you only need the solinoid in the drivers door mate. if u think about it when u sit in and lock the drivers door the passenger locks aswell so he is talkin outa his ass

[nikp]

As already said: you can have remote central locking on your FD - but you need an after market solenoid to fit the drivers door (Already one in passenger). Then you wire up the signals from the alarm for the locking to the drivers solenoid - so that when that operates (Locks/Unlocks) it will send the relevant signal to the passenger door and make that work too. It\'s quite simple really.

All i need to know to do mine, is what tpye of solenoid does the FD use? Is it a two wire solenoid, or more wires (I\'ve seen up to 5 wire types!)

[munkay]

ill take my door card off at the weekend.....
ive just had mine fitted while i had my clifford installed

[RobbieRX-7]

exactly as mike has said.I did mine myself and tbh it took ages because i had to remove the dash in order to get to the alarm control unit, remove the drivers door, drilled new holes, searched the net with a magnifying glass for a wiring diagram for my alarm and so on. Mind you though i did add the clifford smart windows module at the same time and that took the longest time. It is difficult to get the motor in the right place and i can no longer use the key to lock/unlock the drivers door,  because the motor has stiffened the mechanism and the cables just flex, but who needs the key when you have the remote. Post your email\'s up and i\'ll send pics

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