Remote Central Locking

daveblueozzie · Post by **daveblueozzie** » Wed Sep 12, 2007 7:52 pm

ive just been quoted £150 to fit the alarm and the cruise control and the fog lights. what do you think good price or seen me coming. This bloke is an auto electrician.he worked at a local garage fitting alarms and all that stuff,but now works for himself.

mikeonb4c · Post by **mikeonb4c** » Wed Sep 12, 2007 8:24 pm

Doesnt sound too bad to me at all really, as long as you suck your teeth at him and say "OK, but I'm looking for a quality job and I'll buy you a pint too if you do one."

daveblueozzie · Post by **daveblueozzie** » Wed Sep 12, 2007 9:28 pm

forgot to say he will also take the bongo to his worshop and then return to my house all fitted and tested.he also said he will give me a letter confirming the pro fit to give to the insurance compamy ,for the cruise control.

dandywarhol · Post by **dandywarhol** » Wed Sep 12, 2007 11:26 pm

Cconsidering the Chancellor (bless him, another Scot

) has his 20 odd quid I think it's a reasonal job from a professional - how much does it cost to get yer central heating system "serviced"?
The independent Motor Trade get a pretty raw deal a lot of the time - high time "professional mechanics" were licenced/accountable and paid better..................Rant over!

bigdaddycain · Post by **bigdaddycain** » Thu Sep 13, 2007 12:58 am

That's not a bad quote at all,i've heard some scary quotes by auto sparkies

daveblueozzie · Post by **daveblueozzie** » Thu Sep 13, 2007 2:53 pm

well if he does what he says he is going to do this saturday.i will give his name and phone number to anyone who pm's me.until then you will have to wait till ive ok'd him.he is a local lad to me but works in warrington.

daveblueozzie · Post by **daveblueozzie** » Sat Sep 15, 2007 10:08 pm

The bloke who is fitting all my leccy stuff has given me a couple of quotes for fitting cruise control (with a letter saying it was pro fitted). and for wireing front fog lights. this is for bongo owners (i think a good price)
Cruise control £80
Fog lights £40.
if anyone is interested he works in Warrington.(he actually picked my bongo up ).let me know if interested by pm.

bigdaddycain · Post by **bigdaddycain** » Sat Sep 15, 2007 11:21 pm

Sounds ok to me mate... Me next , me next...

dandywarhol · Post by **dandywarhol** » Tue Sep 18, 2007 7:58 pm

Couldn't you wire it into the hazard light circuit and have all 4 lights?

daveblueozzie · Post by **daveblueozzie** » Thu Sep 20, 2007 9:55 pm

ME AGAIN

my electrickery guy fitted the alarm ,fixed my rear fogs, wired up my front fogs, fixed the horn (my fault) and my radio

.he said he still needs the actuator for the remote locking

,but its all wired up and ready.Now as for the criuse control thats another story,

he has done a few of these so no prob he said, three days later,still cannot get it working,phoned WAEKO the firm that makes it they told him to try another way,he did ,still not working.everything is trying to work but the vacuum, WAEKO said it could be a faulty unit, its under 12 months warranty so its going back.

PeetieM · Post by **PeetieM** » Thu Jan 24, 2008 9:59 am

I am about to fit my remote, but I can't make out the text in the factsheet.
Particularly the red text in the top photo on page 7 that relates to the wiring connections.
Can anybody enlighten me before I get everything spread across the driveway, please?

TIA, Pete

PeetieM · Post by **PeetieM** » Mon Jan 28, 2008 11:51 pm

OK, done it. What luxury. I used the Hawk setup, bought from ebay.
For info, I split the rods into 3 sections as the 2 way version fouled the big bolt in the door. I fixed the bottom join before I put the solenoid unit in the door in the same position as shown in the guidance, the second join then becomes accessable in the large hole in the door for adjustment purposes and the top join I could tighten through the top hole in the door while the central locking rod is in its upright position. All is apparent when you look, even if this doesn't make sense .
The wiring is simple, join to the 12v feed, as shown in the notes, twice. One to the red to the receiver and once for the red to the switch unit. Black to ground and ignore/trim the feeds to the 3 unused other door solenoids.
BEWARE OF THE BLACK STUFF!

HTH, Pete.

cheffy34 · Post by **cheffy34** » Tue Jan 29, 2008 1:29 am

I concur really easy job, i found it more frustrating

Limber up those hand joints.

the hawk set up is a good bit of kit

Lewy · Post by **Lewy** » Fri Feb 01, 2008 7:30 pm

Do you need to drill holes to fit the actuator - I'm assuming you do or are there any handy existing holes to use?

cheffy34 · Post by **cheffy34** » Sat Feb 02, 2008 12:15 am

Lewy wrote:Do you need to drill holes to fit the actuator - I'm assuming you do or are there any handy existing holes to use?

yes you have to drill two holes, use the actuator as the template place on the outside once drilled fix the actuator on the inside of the door recess, just had a thought not actually sure i drilled two holes now vagely remember using one handy hole but dont quote me on that one

may have been on another car