central locking wont work

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shnir
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Thu Apr 30, 2009 8:43 pm

hi got 325i sport .. the central locking doesnt work , it tries but all you can here is this weird creaking noise . even when you trie to pull door locks up and down it still wont kick in ...
the old girl is 20yrs old . so isnt doing too bad
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Thu Apr 30, 2009 11:13 pm

mine would do that so i sprayed each lock and lock motor with wd40 and locked and unlocked with the door pin now works fine
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Thu Apr 30, 2009 11:19 pm

Been covered a million times and you should be able to find all the answers you need by using the search function fella.
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Brianmoooore
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Thu Apr 30, 2009 11:19 pm

20 years old is nothing for a BMW! Everything should work as well as the day it left the factory, especially the electrics.
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Thu Apr 30, 2009 11:21 pm

Behind the driver side speaker you are looking for two red and black wires that go to the door connector, cut them and join them together, should sort it out :)
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Thu Apr 30, 2009 11:30 pm

Easy to do mate.should take the best part of 2 hrs max
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