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Peugeot 306 alarm + door central locking problems

Hey all,

I've got a '96 1.4 XR which I love dearly. An amazingally unprofessional electrician installed a Clifford XL500 alarm system in the car about 9 years ago, gravely harming it. After surviving this attack from the electrician, the car lived rather happily and the alarm system worked fine (after fixing a battery drainage problem): the fob locked and unlocked the car doors using its central locking system. Oddly, the driver door lock did not engage door central locking - only the passenger side door. Since I've only used the fob, I did not care.

Up until a year ago, the car was a hot and dry climate - no rain. I've had to move and now the car is in a wetter climate - I've had water leak in through the door. I've had to dismantle the door trim to discover the missing door membranes removed by the horrible electrician, and left the door trim unfastened for a week or so - during which it hardly rained. I bought polyethylene sheets (because a Peugeot door membrane kit is impossible get) and duct tape and decided to fix the problem myself.

Just before I started working on the membranes (never even got to taking off the unfastened door trim), I've noticed that the door central locking is malfunctioning. Oddly, it now only locks the car - unlocking the car cannot be done with the fob, only with the key. The car has experienced a year of rains so I doubt this has anything to do with it but I'm not sure.

I'm suspecting the passenger side servo is malfunctioning and not triggering the unlocking in the entire car - I'm hearing a tick during locking but not during unlocking. Not sure about this - will double check tomorrow.

Anyhow have any idea what the problem might be?

Thanks,

Alon

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Alon Diamant
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"Alon Diamant" wrote in news: snipped-for-privacy@f14g2000cwb.googlegroups.com:

Dodgy locking-solenoid or door-to-body wiring loom fracture?

-- sA

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southpawArcher

Why would a wiring loom fracture do this?

How do I test the solenoid - can I do this myself?

southpawArcher wrote:

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Alon Diamant

Our car (Pug 306, 1998/S) will now not centrally lock with key on drivers door (that door locks, but the others won't), but works perfectly on the passenger door. Unlocking centrally works on both doors. This situation is caused by the request to lock driver's door signal wire being broken at some point - likely to be in the driver's door hinge loom.

As far as I know, reading on here, practically all dodgy central locking issues are down to wiring issues. And practically all these wiring issues are in the door hinges. Peugeot and electrics aren't that reliable from what I gather (cue Jeremy Clarkson's comments about french cars catching fire in Paris).

D

Al> Why would a wiring loom fracture do this?

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David Hearn

Happily, I have experienced a new and lovely problem: The car won't start. If I turn the key to ATT mode, the radio/lights/horn etc work just fine. When I try to start the car - I hear the starter motor turn for a quarter of a second then freeze - and everything fades to black. Turning the key back to ATT, or any other mode, never returns power - I have to disconnect the battery hook cable and reconnect it - only to experience the same lovely behaviour once more.

This has occured right after the first problem started.

Have any ideas?

Alon

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diamant.alon

and now, suddenly, it works once more. I have no idea what the hell is going on. Could a starter motor freeze cause electrical problems?

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Alon Diamant

"Alon Diamant" wrote in news: snipped-for-privacy@f14g2000cwb.googlegroups.com:

Could be a dodgy earth somewhere.

-- sA

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southpawArcher

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