Corsa sport Alarm/Drivers Door Lock

I have recently bought a 2000 Corsa sport and I cant seem to get the alarm to turn on. I can press the button near the interior light and get the alarm led to flash for 10 seconds(to diable ultra-sonics). When I turn the drivers door key 90degrees to the horizontal position and remove, the LED does nothing. One thing I have noticed is that the first 60odd degrees of movement does nothing and is completly free. My previous corsa(no alarm) with central locking had resistance from vertical to 60odd degrees and would lock the doors but not dead-lock them. You then had to turn the key a further 30 odd degrees to horizontal to get the dead-locks to activate.

Any Ideas

Thanks

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Rob Kirk
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Firstly, the button by the sensor just disables the ultrasonic sensors so that is nothing to do with your problem.

It sounds as if you might have deadlocking preoblems. Have you tested to see if you are deadlocking the doors when you lock it fully? The deadlock rings can fail but I do not know of this affects the alarm.

A Vauxhall dealer can give you on the spot advice and a quote for a repair. You can then decide what to do.

Alan

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Alan

I only mentioned the bit about disabling the ultrasonics sensors thinking that this would indicate that the alarm control box was working and the fault wasnt down to a blown fuse.

Ive just been out and done a test on the car. I locked the drivers door by turning the key to the horizontal position and removed the key(leaving the keyhole horizontal). I then managed to unlock the whole car using the passenger lock, im sure when deadlocked only the drivers door should be able to un-lock the car? I then went to the drivers door and could not turn the key(keyhole still horizontal). I had to re-lock the car from the passenger side and then unlock it from the drivers side.

Ive had these locks completly to bits before to replace the numbered slats inside, cant remember which part of the barrel assembly is used for the dead-locking. What normally happens to the dead-lock part for it to fail?

Thanks

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Rob Kirk

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