Um, what is the purpose of remote power door locks if you have to hold the
remote against the driver's window? Might as well put the key in the lock...
For the life of me I can't imagine the impulse that leads people to install
things like this. Gadget envy?
Here's my question -- what happens when the battery dies, and you can't
unlock the doors to access the battery (or even open the bonnet)?
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Max Heim
'66 MGB GHN3L76149
If you're near Mountain View, CA,
it's the primer red one with chrome wires
(doors never locked anyway)
on 3/10/06 7:27 AM, Paul Hunt at paul.hunt1@blueyonder.co.uk wrote:
> Can't speak for VB, but I have installed power locks from the MGOC in the
> UK. These were just the motors, connecting to an output on an alarm system
> that I already had installed. There were no physical mounting instructions
> at all, and minimal electrical instructions, but as logic dictates that the
> motor has to pull and push on the rod that connects the locking lever to the
> door lock it wasn't difficult to come up with something that worked. The
> motor has a rod as well, and there was a miniature U-clamp to clamp the two
> rods together, if you position both the motor and the locking lever mid-way
> in their respective travels you will be about right, the motor having a
> significantly longer unfettered travel than the manual lever. As far as
> wireless range goes I have always found that I have to be much closer to the
> car than more modern machinery where it is OE equipment, sometimes right by
> the drivers window, my control unit is mounted above the glovebox (UK tin
> dash) with the aerial wire hanging down but out of sight.
>
> PaulH.
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