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Title: drivers door /C locking/manual lock ?
Post by: powerslinky on 03 July 2014, 20:59:54
Advice required guys please. for the '53 plate 3.2 elite. Drivers door is going to be changed & I have one coming in the right colour, complete door as it comes off (door card/mirror & lock inc.)

I am also getting 1 key for that door  . . . so . . . .   can i just put the door on as is & will the central locking work off of my original key /  But If I  need/want to ,manually lock /open it ,I will use the key supplied with the door .

Will this work ?            Also I know I have to check that the door speaker is a Bose one  :D

TIA   Al :y
Title: Re: drivers door /C locking/manual lock ?
Post by: 4x4 on 03 July 2014, 21:02:08
As your taking door card off why not change handles over at the same time  :y
Title: Re: drivers door /C locking/manual lock ?
Post by: powerslinky on 03 July 2014, 21:04:39
As your taking door card off why not change handles over at the same time  :y

Is not changing the lock barrel a bit of a nightmare? :-\ :-\     just looking for an easy way out for the time being  :-[ :-[
Title: Re: drivers door /C locking/manual lock ?
Post by: TheBoy on 03 July 2014, 21:19:17
Easy job to swap over the whole exterior handle. Not doing so will bite you in the arse one day when the battery (either car, or fob) dies at the most inconvenient time.
Title: Re: drivers door /C locking/manual lock ?
Post by: 05omegav6 on 03 July 2014, 21:19:50
As your taking door card off why not change handles over at the same time  :y

Is not changing the lock barrel a bit of a nightmare? :-\ :-\     just looking for an easy way out for the time being  :-[ :-[
Door card off, two nuts and unhook the rods :y
Title: Re: drivers door /C locking/manual lock ?
Post by: powerslinky on 03 July 2014, 21:26:03
As your taking door card off why not change handles over at the same time  :y

Is not changing the lock barrel a bit of a nightmare? :-\ :-\     just looking for an easy way out for the time being  :-[ :-[
Door card off, two nuts and unhook the rods :y

Oh in that case . . . I will change it then .   Somewhere or for some reason I had it in my head that it was a right tricky little bugger to do  ::) ::)

Title: Re: drivers door /C locking/manual lock ?
Post by: powerslinky on 03 July 2014, 21:29:05
Easy job to swap over the whole exterior handle. Not doing so will bite you in the arse one day when the battery (either car, or fob) dies at the most inconvenient time.

But I will have the key for that new  door TB . To open manually if needed :-\

 But  I will change it over now that i know it;s fairly simple  job :-* :-*  Thank you
Title: Re: drivers door /C locking/manual lock ?
Post by: 05omegav6 on 03 July 2014, 21:31:15
I don't doubt it will be on the fiddly side of awkward  ::)  ;D
Title: Re: drivers door /C locking/manual lock ?
Post by: powerslinky on 03 July 2014, 21:46:23
I don't doubt it will be on the fiddly side of awkward  ::)  ;D

Should be a breeze with my hands  then. . . like No.1 coal shovels  ? ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D

I would still like to know though  . .     if   . .  the new door with it's own lock will open with  all the other 3 doors,with the central locking, with my existing key fob? :-\ :-\ :-\
Title: Re: drivers door /C locking/manual lock ?
Post by: 05omegav6 on 03 July 2014, 21:58:27
It will do, but if you try and use the current key in the new barrel, even once, then you'll be changing the lock :y
Title: Re: drivers door /C locking/manual lock ?
Post by: powerslinky on 03 July 2014, 22:02:28
It will do, but if you try and use the current key in the new barrel, even once, then you'll be changing the lock :y

Advice taken  Al  cheers  :y
Title: Re: drivers door /C locking/manual lock ?
Post by: TheBoy on 05 July 2014, 09:27:54
Easy job to swap over the whole exterior handle. Not doing so will bite you in the arse one day when the battery (either car, or fob) dies at the most inconvenient time.

But I will have the key for that new  door TB . To open manually if needed :-\

 But  I will change it over now that i know it;s fairly simple  job :-* :-*  Thank you
So you're really considering carrying 2 keys around :o

The hardest part, honestly, is removal of doorcard and dampproof membrane.