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 Jiffy
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| posted on May 15th, 2011 at 08:48 AM |
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Central Locking
Hi Guys,
I've now installed my alarm which went pretty much without a hitch.
The other day I tried to install the central locking and I came up with two problems.
1) I couldn't locate any place in the door wide enough to put the actuator. If I put it up by the rod, the window hits it.
2) I scratched the metal part of my door putting the door trim back on.
Can anyone help me with the best place/way to put these actuators in? If you have any pictures that would be great too.
Also, is there an easy way to get your door panels back in? I found I needed three hands, one to push the handle back over the hook and two to keep
either side of the panel away from the doors till I'm ready to clip it in.
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Joel
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| posted on May 15th, 2011 at 01:23 PM |
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There's an art to getting the door panels on without scratching the paint.
If you grab it by the top and bottom and bend them away from the door so the middle is bent inwards you can drop the arm rest bracket over it's hook
and slide the door panel down without scratching the paint.
With the central locking actuator it's easy to just fix a bracket to the door skin for the actuator to screw to.
Thats what I did with mine, been working well for over 10 years now.
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68AutoBug
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 posted on May 15th, 2011 at 06:06 PM |
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Hi Joel,
I knew You must have painted something on Your car .. lol
I see the centre stay in Your door painted dark blue..
Great....
I also have central locking to fit to My beetle in the near future...
and Yes, putting the door trims on.... a pain...
I put masking tape all around the door so the clips can't scratch the paint.... because they always do... lol
LEE
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Joel
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| posted on May 15th, 2011 at 06:49 PM |
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Nah I'm too lazy to make stuff that isn't seen pretty.
It's just the window winder out of the old convertable, it's over spray, anything that could be painted was painted on that car.
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beetleboyjeff
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| posted on May 15th, 2011 at 09:23 PM |
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The blokes at Autobarn fitted mine originally. They just screwed a bracket low down on the door, then screwed the server to that. They have been fine
for about 5 years now.
From your ole' mate Jeff
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Jiffy
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| posted on July 5th, 2011 at 11:05 PM |
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Thanks for the advise again, you guys are really saving me here;
Well this was a fun job! Not!
One of the biggest issues I had was I was doing it at about 1am as I have very little spare time due to having little ones. As such I had to be very
quiet and couldn't use a grinder.
A drill and some pliers provided a messy but just as effective result.
Then, taking some advise from here, I mounted a plate at the bottom by cutting and folding the lip then screwing on the inside, so as not to disturb
the trim.
With lots of playing around with angles, lengths and so-on, I used some plant pot hangers for the steel rod and modified the standard clamps to fit. I
also had to drill the actuators slightly.
Works well for the most part, but every now and then, when you lock it, it thinks the rod is stuck (due to high resistance or short travel, I'm not
sure) and then unlocks it again, so you have to be careful.
Here's the results;
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