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Offline Haribo!

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Re: central locking kits for mk2's
« Reply #20 on: 31 August 2010, 19:02 »
yeah the boot pop motor/solenoid isn't included as std, though they do sell a kit for it.  you can try using one of the cl actuators and a rubber band so it retracts once popped, im sure i read that someone did that somewhere?

ah bollockz to that, I can open the boot with the button like a normal person. save myself faffing about with it.

I just used one of the rear door solenoids for the boot pop, I'll see if I can dig out the picture of how it is setup.

ah ok, ive got so many spare solenoids so that could work

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Re: central locking kits for mk2's
« Reply #21 on: 31 August 2010, 22:16 »
Bodgy bodgy bodgy ... its been 4 years now and its still fine :)

Right, this probably won't be ideal for you, but I fitted this about 3 years ago with whatever I had laying about at the time.

Its worked perfect without fail, but it looks bodgy






Just noticed I've got some nice rot inside the boot lid too - awesome

The rubber bandy bit is to pull the solenoid back to normal position after firing. As I used a spare normal door lock pusher, it doesn't return to centre - hence the rubber band.

The metal wire is just so I could mount the popper transversely, and it takes less effort for it to open because its a 'pully' type system, physicsy stuff and all that.



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Re: central locking kits for mk2's
« Reply #22 on: 31 August 2010, 22:24 »
thats genius, cheers

Il have a look and see if i can mimic it... I can imagine the task will annoy me too much to bother tho :p

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Re: central locking kits for mk2's
« Reply #23 on: 22 September 2010, 15:22 »
Im thinking of getting an rclick kit, could anybody give me a little fitting advice before hand?

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Re: central locking kits for mk2's
« Reply #24 on: 23 September 2010, 00:29 »
Im thinking of getting an rclick kit, could anybody give me a little fitting advice before hand?

Its dead easy mate, easiest if you already have a central locking kit cause then all you do if get your key blank cut and swap the black box with the one you already have.

Still easy if you have the original air pump set up, you just run the loom into each door and swap the solenoids with the air ones, then plug the loom into the black box.

Wiring it up is fairly easy, how to do it depends if youve got a pre or post 90 mk2.

If you have zero central locking and it was never a central locking car then its still dead easy to set up to the doors, but you will need to buy/acquire a petrol flap central locking mech to ad the motor to, thats dead easy bu you need to make sure your flap has the pin on it and theres a hole ready or youde have to play with that.  Also you would need an entire central locking boot lock with rods, barrel and button to swap with your existing one as theyre totally different.

I hope that was a little help, im certainly no expert but ive fitted lots of central locking kits :p
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Re: central locking kits for mk2's
« Reply #25 on: 23 September 2010, 00:38 »
it seems I love the term "dead easy"

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Re: central locking kits for mk2's
« Reply #26 on: 23 September 2010, 10:26 »
my main priorities would be the doors, id probably leave the petrol flap as the cap has a key anyway and as for the boot its opened like once a week so id probably fit the boot kit later if at all, its zero central locking thats why it annoys me so much and im basically just after fitting a central locking kit with a key fob

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Re: central locking kits for mk2's
« Reply #27 on: 23 September 2010, 11:13 »
my main priorities would be the doors, id probably leave the petrol flap as the cap has a key anyway and as for the boot its opened like once a week so id probably fit the boot kit later if at all, its zero central locking thats why it annoys me so much and im basically just after fitting a central locking kit with a key fob

its a really simple and easy job then mate,

find a screw hole anywhere beneath the door pin, there might be two the correct distance apart to screw into both holes on the solenoid but if theres only one then use the ladder shaped part whcih comes with the kit to add the extra hole (youl know what I mean when you see it.

Now if you feel up inside the door towards the door pin you should find that the door pin attached to a plastic piece, that plastic piece has an extra hole in it, this hole is where you need to put your rod that also comes with the kit, work out how long it needs to be and cut it (I just used two pairs of pliers to bend it until it snapped, easy that way) it has to be long enough to bend the end to as far over a right angle as you can get away with so its less likely to pop out of the hole during operation, now you need to stick that rod through the hole in the plastic thing.  Before you do that, pop off the part at the end of the solenoid and put it on the rod first so its at the end with the notch on, (hopefully that will make more sense when you see the parts) 

When youve got the rod nicely through the hole, you need to pop that part back on the solenoid and with the door unlocked have the solenoid in the extended position and secure it to the door. the solenoid with the most wires coming out of it is the master, the rclick kit comes with two of these, the only difference is that master solenoids unlock everything else if you use the key on it as well as when you use the fob, so just use them in both doors if you want although it doesn't matter that much.

To fit the loom take of your dash under trays and if you feel up beside the fuse box, a little above the metal thing that you can screw one side of the under tray to, you should be able to find the hole to the world outside which will take you to the rubber grommet on the outside of the car, you may need to dig for it but its there ;)

The passenger one is in the same place on the other side, you can either make a hole in the grommets in both the car and the door to put the wires though or REALLY you should acquire the rubber boots that the wires can go through , VW still stock them.

the loom is simple, it all plugs together and is colour coordinated. then it plugs into your little black box that you can hide wherever you like.

if your cars a 90 spec, theres an earth claw above the fuse box for yoru earth and the live can go on the far right hand side of the back of the fuse box, its got thick red wires going into it and there should be spare spades there.

im not 100% sure about pre 90 but i think theres a collection of live spades on one side and ignition lives on the other and I cant remember about earth, it does go tho, from what I remember, its easier.

you should be set up then. theres an extra plug for other things too with that kit, theres the window wind up thing and boot pop that both require buying extra bits and then theres the two brown wires that you can splice onto some wires going from your indicator stalk if you want the indicators to flash when you lock/unlock the car/ use the car find feature. its simple to do, in fact all of its pretty simple cause I managed it and im crap at this stuff :p


Thats probably more info then you needed and probably made no sense, its pretty easy to work it out for yourself anyway, but I just felt like a typeafon :p


 

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Re: central locking kits for mk2's
« Reply #28 on: 27 September 2010, 14:17 »
Right its pay day thursday and im going to get one of these rclick kits, iv just been looking through the kits and the key fobs look abit naff, which fob did you guys go for?

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Re: central locking kits for mk2's
« Reply #29 on: 27 September 2010, 15:03 »
MK4 Golf stylee :)
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