Touring LH rear door and tailgate locked and won't open

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stew72
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Post Tue Jul 22, 2014 9:35 pm

Both the left hand rear door and the tailgate on my new touring are locked and won't open, the tailgate won't do anything with the key and the rear door won't unlock via the pin, the pin and the inner handle won't move and appear to be connected ok as I've got the inner trim off.

I'm pretty sure that this is something to do with the 'dead lock' system, however the CL controller is missing so the central locking isn't working.

At each actuator I've got a blue and white wire that would lock / unlock the actuator depending on current flow and a thinner black wire that would seem to be connected to the switch on the drivers door barrel. The switch on the drivers door barrel also has an earth and a red and white wire that connects to the controller.

Does anyone know where to put a live feed and earth on this set up so that the actuators will unlock?

Thanks.
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Post Tue Jul 22, 2014 10:07 pm

Deadlock motor wires are blue and black. Blue and white are the lock motor.
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Post Wed Jul 23, 2014 6:16 am

Thanks Brian. I'm not sure if they're deadlocked or if they've just failed and are stuck in the locked position.