Anyone Baught A Cheap Remote Central Locking Kit Of Ebay

[Alex]

Just baught one of these

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll? ... :IT&ih=002

anyone baught one are they any good, do they last?

[iamjj]

i was talking about these the other day, i quite fancy one too

here
http://www.e30zone.net/modules.php?name ... highlight=

[dannyboy759]

ive got got of these kits fitted to my cars and i think they are great.
Its not the same kit, but the principle is the same.

[Alex]

cheers, money well spent then

[Brianmoooore]

There's another one on ebay for about £20 a time, that was in a thread on here a couple of weeks ago.
I bought two of these, and they seem well made with good quality components.
As for long term reliability: All I can say so far is that they've lasted a fortnight with no problems!

[gooner1]

Mr Moore, are you advocating the purchase of a non oem BMW electrical item

[Alex]

have not recived it yet but just thought would my original bmw central locking have to be working before i fit one of these or is there seperate wires comming out from the control unit straight to the solenoids,

i think i should have baught the kit with the solenoids

[agreen]

so the kit at the top of the page that you brought is not a complete set then ?

i thought i just took the old key cental locking and the above kit turned it into remote cental locking ?

[Alex]

no ive just relised i think i need this kit, iam i right in thinking i will need the wiring for the solenoids to wire it up to my bmw solenoids

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll? ... gory=75329

[Sanchez]

your need to have the central locking working for the set with the link at top of page.

in the above ebay link you'll need to change all the acutators, can be a shit job if you dont no what your doing.

[Alex]

cheers i will see if i can send it back then

[SPADGE]

If a 14/15 year old can manage it then i'm sure it can't be that hard.
Josh Hocking recently fitted one of these kits see the 2 threads below

http://www.e30zone.net/modules.php?name ... ic&t=84395

http://www.e30zone.net/modules.php?name ... ic&t=85106

[Alex]

can't be hard i just baught the wrong one. the one in the above thread is basically the one i baught which wires up to the originall central locking system but because mine is broken i will need the wiring for the aftermarket one so i can bypass the original central locking system.

[Brianmoooore]

Wouldn't it be a lot simpler and a thousand times more reliable to sort out the original locking?

[Gunni]

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll? ... gory=75329

This is what the original oem actuators look like. so they will fit directly and in stock locations.
If you have no wiring for it then the kit is almost super simple, just need to route the wires.

I did it the other day, now I got 4doors locking for 25pounds or so, and I can still hook up the boot.
and the horn,. lights and have automatic lock on and so on.

totally worth it