central locking system

[birdlover]

Hi there ,

 

My 1995 Escort has central locking , but due to wear i think , the key does not open the drivers door every time . The key does turn fully , but the key doesn't engage the lock to open the door . As a result i try to remember to unlock the car from the passengers door .

During the cold weather last winter , and while 160 miles from home , the drivers door lock froze . After opening the car from the passengers side , and putting the keys in the ignition , i shut the door , only for the central locking system to engage and lock the car with the keys in the ignition ! What fun this is i thought !

The story ends with a happy note , because the breakdown man's van key opened my car door ! Miracles do happen !

Do i need a new central locking system ?

 

Regards

 

Martin

[stoo2000]

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[etrebus]

Hi there ,

 

My 1995 Escort has central locking , but due to wear i think , the key does not open the drivers door every time . The key does turn fully , but the key doesn't engage the lock to open the door . As a result i try to remember to unlock the car from the passengers door .

During the cold weather last winter , and while 160 miles from home , the drivers door lock froze . After opening the car from the passengers side , and putting the keys in the ignition , i shut the door , only for the central locking system to engage and lock the car with the keys in the ignition ! What fun this is i thought !

The story ends with a happy note , because the breakdown man's van key opened my car door ! Miracles do happen !

Do i need a new central locking system ?

 

Regards

 

Martin

if another key opened you car that wasnt the correct one then you could do with a new barrel or rebuild your old one with a kit

[shawdreamer]

Hi there ,

 

My 1995 Escort has central locking , but due to wear i think , the key does not open the drivers door every time . The key does turn fully , but the key doesn't engage the lock to open the door . As a result i try to remember to unlock the car from the passengers door .

During the cold weather last winter , and while 160 miles from home , the drivers door lock froze . After opening the car from the passengers side , and putting the keys in the ignition , i shut the door , only for the central locking system to engage and lock the car with the keys in the ignition ! What fun this is i thought !

The story ends with a happy note , because the breakdown man's van key opened my car door ! Miracles do happen !

Do i need a new central locking system ?

 

Regards

 

Martin

if another key opened you car that wasnt the correct one then you could do with a new barrel or rebuild your old one with a kit

 

sounds more like a worn dead locking sensor to me...

 

the reason ford added the dead locking feature was partially due to the one vehicle keys working on multiple vehicles issue, problem is when the sensor dies it often does so in one of its two positions......

 

engaged - the door barrel wont function atall and the sensor will often automatically re-lock the Central locking of all the doors despite using a different lock, happens more when the drivers door sensor is the issue as the drivers door sensor is the primary trigger for the CL system while the secondary is in the passenger door, also, unlocking from the passenger door in general is something that should be discouraged as it generally confuses the cack ford alarm system which also often see's the CL system re-lock the doors.

 

Disengaged - The barrel works but the deadlocking feature no longer responds while using the offending barrel, when another door lock is used the effect can be confusing to the CL system as with the the above "engaged" situ and the CL system tries to return the door barrels to the previous position...... often with the keys inside at the time, mush to the owners joy.

 

two solutions...

 

replace the faulty sensor (very easy job as its just clipped around the barrel in a simple fashion)

 

fool the sensors into believing the deadlocking is permanently open (done by getting the car in its unlocked condition then yankin the plugs out the barrels horseshoe sensors so they cant contradict each other when you next try and lock the car, downside is you lose the "deadlocking" feature from your doors but the upside is you may find the suspect barrel functions perfectly again while retaining all other the CL features)

 

imo the latter should only be used as a short term solution till you can acquire a replacement sensor.