Hey all.
Has anyone had any experience with car centrol locking in a beetle?
I am having trouble finding sum1 who has done this before. The guy I am getting to instal the alarm, told us that we need to mount the solenoids outside the door, ie where the door card is.
This would mean a hell of a lot of fiddling around & a buldge in the door card around the solenoid.... not a pretty look!
He said that the window winds down almost to the bottom of the door leaving no room inside the door 4 the solenoid.

Thanks
Sammy

Sammy, I had mine installed at our local Autobarn, and didn't have any problems. The window glass doesn't go all the way to the edge of the door.

I'm with Jeff, I've done this to a 69 and it all fit inside the door cavity. I think another installer might be the way to go.

I mounted my actuators a fair bit higher than Jeffs and they are still well clear of the glass when fully down.



Like Cam says, probably just a lazy installer.

So far mine are all inside the door, without an extra piece for mounting.
Will get photos at some point, probably when it's all done.

But yeah, lazy installer, can all be done very easily, just takes time.

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Originally posted by Topaz Hey all. Has anyone had any experience with car centrol locking in a beetle? I am having trouble finding sum1 who has done this before. The guy I am getting to instal the alarm, told us that we need to mount the solenoids outside the door, ie where the door card is. This would mean a hell of a lot of fiddling around & a buldge in the door card around the solenoid.... not a pretty look! He said that the window winds down almost to the bottom of the door leaving no room inside the door 4 the solenoid. Thanks Sammy

I'm about to complete this mod to my 74 Super and with the help of the photos in this thread I have made up the brackets to hold the solenoids in the doors.

The only bit left to do really is to wire up the solenoids. Any tips on running the wires through the A-pillars? I can't easily get access to the back of the pillars from under the dash, so do I have to run the wires through from the front "boot"?

Cheers,
Brett.

Hi Brett,

You can just see with mine I run the wires through the door and pillar into the boot through rubber grommets.
There is plenty of holes through the back of the dash area to bring them back into the car.

I tried running the wires in corrigated loom tube but there's just not enough room when the door is shut for it.
been setup like this for over 10 years now and no problems, even when I had bent hinges on the drivers side

Hi

As for getting the wire from the car to inside the doo.

You need to drill a hole in the door and the A pillar to take a grommet to hold plastic tube and to carry the wire, then use an oversized grommet on either side so that the plastic tube is gripped on one side and slides through the grommet on the other side.

Steve

Thanks again guys. That's given me a few ideas.

Cheers.

Hi
this is how I did it but only for the door speakers
will either have to do more or make the one larger
the steel is very thick there , took a long time to drill thru.

the cable is fixed at one end so the cable just slides back and forth.. can't remember which end is fixed??
maybe in the door..

haven't fitted the remote locking yet
just remote alarm..

LEE

I do have a locking ignition lock I got from the USA to fit one day also..

centre starter switch has the locking function
the cutout in the steering shaft should already have the steering lock cutout... Lee.