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PaulGShaw
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Post Tue Sep 22, 2020 5:38 pm

Hi to all, brand new to this site and about to own 1990 320iSE manual 4 door.....I have the car and the central locking is playing up, I can hear a relay ‘ding’ somewhere in the driver’s footwell but the doors don’t lock or unlock.....except the driver’s of course.
Where is this relay lurking?....I think I need to investigate....
Cheers to all, Paul....
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Post Tue Sep 22, 2020 6:03 pm

PaulGShaw wrote:
Tue Sep 22, 2020 5:38 pm
Hi to all, brand new to this site and about to own 1990 320iSE manual 4 door.....I have the car and the central locking is playing up, I can hear a relay ‘ding’ somewhere in the driver’s footwell but the doors don’t lock or unlock.....except the driver’s of course.
Where is this relay lurking?....I think I need to investigate....
Cheers to all, Paul....
Welcome to the mad house :mad:

First of all check the WIKI most answers there
https://www.e30zone.net/e30wiki/index.p ... al_Locking

Then have a search through this section for "central locking" and have a read of some of the old threads, lots of good info there.

Couple of recent threads about it.
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martauto
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Post Wed Sep 23, 2020 5:46 pm

Welcome to the zone mate !!

The Wiki is the best around !!

Mart.
Only the E46 cab left now.
Just got too old.
PaulGShaw
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Post Thu Sep 24, 2020 9:02 am

flybynite wrote:
Tue Sep 22, 2020 6:03 pm
PaulGShaw wrote:
Tue Sep 22, 2020 5:38 pm
Hi to all, brand new to this site and about to own 1990 320iSE manual 4 door.....I have the car and the central locking is playing up, I can hear a relay ‘ding’ somewhere in the driver’s footwell but the doors don’t lock or unlock.....except the driver’s of course.
Where is this relay lurking?....I think I need to investigate....
Cheers to all, Paul....
Welcome to the mad house :mad:

First of all check the WIKI most answers there
https://www.e30zone.net/e30wiki/index.p ... al_Locking

Then have a search through this section for "central locking" and have a read of some of the old threads, lots of good info there.

Couple of recent threads about it.
many thanks....relay located, removed, fixed and now the central locking works again!....great....