Before I start swapping relays and stuff I thought I'd post the symptoms here in case anybody can say for sure.
One just the locking just stopped working, dead from boot and passengers door, also dead from drivers door but I can here the motor in the drivers door it sounds very weak and strained.
Any ideas, or good tests?
Central locking "just stopped"
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hoshy
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kam-325i
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When my old 320i did that, i changed the Central locking module. And it cured my problem.
Can you hear the locks "Straining" to unlock the doors ?
Can you hear the locks "Straining" to unlock the doors ?
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flatfourfun
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This happened to mine last week. It was a broken wire (red/black) in the bellows thing between the A pillar and the drivers door.
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hoshy
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Yeap.kam-325i wrote: Can you hear the locks "Straining" to unlock the doors ?
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kam-325i
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Check the connections in the A pillar on drivers side, then check the module.
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hoshy
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cheers. will do.
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Brianmoooore
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Remove driver's footwell speaker, find two seperate red/black wires going to the driver's door socket, snip them away from the socket and join them together.
This will cure 80% of central locking problems!
This will cure 80% of central locking problems!
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bri re the red and black wires do you mean snip them and by pass the connector block and re join them or snip them on the speaker side of the block and join them without them passing through the block
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Brianmoooore
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Join them without passing through the block. For some reason the supply to the locking ECU goes into the driver's door, turns around on a loop of wire, then comes out again.gazza wrote:bri re the red and black wires do you mean snip them and by pass the connector block and re join them or snip them on the speaker side of the block and join them without them passing through the block
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hoshy
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CHeers Brian, I'll bridge it out to test first.
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Brianmoooore
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Do it anyway. It's a routine mod I do to all E30s that come my way.
The presence of a permanent live pin in the door socket encourages corrosion of the socket. If it isn't the problem now, it wll be one day.
The presence of a permanent live pin in the door socket encourages corrosion of the socket. If it isn't the problem now, it wll be one day.
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every e30 i've come across seems to have this problem, why they designed the circuit like that i have no idea
