by eamop » Fri Jun 11, 2010 1:57 pm
quick update lads re the central locking problem.I had an absolute nightmare removing the drivers side rear door.i had to remove all the rear trim around the door and drivers door then remove the drivers seat belt to access the bolts holding the hinges to the body.After removing the hinges to the rear door i could pull the door out just enough to access the receiver for the rear door lock(u shaped bracket that shuts the latch on the lock)and using several drill bits i drilled through one side of the receiver (took hours and about 6 bits).after this i had to bend the receiver until it snapped allowing the door to come clear of the car.I now could remove the lock assembly from the door and low and behold it was in perfect working order and when plugged into the drivers door it locked and unlocked perfectly, and having already checked all the cables feeding the rear door and finding no faults this only left one possible problem the uch (located below the steering wheel on the back of the fuse panel) .Knowing this would be a very expensive repair and requiring the whole car to be reprogammed i decided against this and decided to try rewire the rear lock off the drivers door.so here goes.
firstle i removed both plug ins from the locks to examine the colour of the cables which renault in their inginuity coloured differently but the six cables where lettered a-f so after 3hrs of splicing cables together and drilling holes and hiding the new cables the rear lock was rewired and refitted and thank god it worked the back door now locks and unlocks with the driver door.There are however a couple of minor downsides to this ,as one push on the key card unlock button would usually only open the drivers door and two presses would be required to open all the doors, the drivers door, and rear door now open on the first press and a second is still required to open everything else (boo hoo like i care at least it works) and the child lock which is stupidly electronic no longer works (again boo hoo like i care) other then that a successful job still have to do the passenger side but learned on the drivers side so shouldnt take as long second time round i hope