Central Locking Issues 1995 BG5

[evljat]

Recently bought a 1995 Legacy GT knowing it had central locking issues.

The central locking does not work at all from both the Alarm remote, infrared remote and the switch on the driver\'s side and the driver\'s side lock.

I can hear a relay clicking somewhere behind the glove box. I removed the glovebox and had a sniff but couldn\'t find anything. From the searching I have done I believe that my central locking motor has stopped working. Is this true? and how hard is it to replace?

Cheers guys.

[Dubby458]

so using the key in the door it just locks the driver door???

[Dubby458]

if so i would just check fuses, and most likely the central locking control unit could be faulty, or just maybe you have crook door motors but i doubt they would all go but it is possible

[evljat]

I had a look at the fuses in the driver\'s footwell and I couldn\'t read the Japanese writing. Assuming this picture is correct I switched the 20A fuse with a working one and the central still didn\'t work. I could still hear the relay clicking when operating the drivers side lock. Now I\'ll look into replacing the central locking unit.

[evljat]

So I finally fixed this problem. After it was said that it is more than likely to be the C/L unit than the motors I decided to replace that. A short trip down to the Takanini PickaPart and $16 later I had one from a wrecked bg5. I was surpised to see about 5-6 of them there.

So I replaced the unit and wah-lah I had central locking again. But it wouldn\'t lock/unlock with the alarm. Following this thread http://www.clubsub.org.nz/forum/index.php/topic,27921.0.html I soldered the two wires and bang everything was working like it should.

...Apart from the infrared key lock thing. But oh well don\'t need that anyway.

Hope this helps someone in a similar situation.

Cheers.