Re: Me & My More Door, The Little Blue Beast
Posted: Sun Feb 16, 2014 3:15 pm
I'm a big music lover, you can't be happy till there's a large quantity of base in your life
(I know the boot needs a clean )
Well I got my remote locking fitted this weekend, works a treat
It was really simple too, there was about 20 million wires (slight exaggeration) that you didn't really need but they're there for accessories like a boot release and an alarm, there was also wires for things like automatic locking once the foot brake has been pressed and so on. These accessories are quite good but I really just wanted a bog-standard remote locking install so that's what I did
The wires you need are in the drivers kick panel, I removed the door trim just to ensure that I had the right wires but other than that everything you need is below the dash/kick panel. The lock wire is the brown/white wire, and the unlock wire is the red/yellow wire (don't take my word for it, always check!) and then the black/white wire is the common. Use the wiring diagram that you get with the kit to check but on mine the lock wire was yellow and the unlock was yellow/black so I just spliced into the relative wires and soldered them up. The two common grounds from the locking unit then need to be spliced into the black/white wire. I also wired in the indicator unit so that when I lock/unlock the indicators flash, but that's fairly straight forward; just remove the trim around the steering wheel, remove the indicator stalk and locate the two black/white wires, splice into them and attach the two brown wires from the unit and then hey-presto!
Got up this morning and one of my alloys had a flat I've put one of my steelys back on and i'll have to get the alloy fixed asap, it's quite lucky I've got family in the tyre business
Few more pics of the beast after a quick wash today!
(I know the boot needs a clean )
Well I got my remote locking fitted this weekend, works a treat
It was really simple too, there was about 20 million wires (slight exaggeration) that you didn't really need but they're there for accessories like a boot release and an alarm, there was also wires for things like automatic locking once the foot brake has been pressed and so on. These accessories are quite good but I really just wanted a bog-standard remote locking install so that's what I did
The wires you need are in the drivers kick panel, I removed the door trim just to ensure that I had the right wires but other than that everything you need is below the dash/kick panel. The lock wire is the brown/white wire, and the unlock wire is the red/yellow wire (don't take my word for it, always check!) and then the black/white wire is the common. Use the wiring diagram that you get with the kit to check but on mine the lock wire was yellow and the unlock was yellow/black so I just spliced into the relative wires and soldered them up. The two common grounds from the locking unit then need to be spliced into the black/white wire. I also wired in the indicator unit so that when I lock/unlock the indicators flash, but that's fairly straight forward; just remove the trim around the steering wheel, remove the indicator stalk and locate the two black/white wires, splice into them and attach the two brown wires from the unit and then hey-presto!
Got up this morning and one of my alloys had a flat I've put one of my steelys back on and i'll have to get the alloy fixed asap, it's quite lucky I've got family in the tyre business
Few more pics of the beast after a quick wash today!