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Hi,

My central locking in the fto wasn't working for a while but suddenly it seems to work again fine. It must be the cold weather....heheehe.

Have a good day all, Mario

Hey congratulations mate, I hope it doesn't revert back to not working properly again. Very interstint indeed!

the central locking issue mainly occurs when the actuators over heat, so there's a good chance this will re-occur when temperatures rise again or if you open and close the doors a bit.

I experience the same problem as weel, it always comes for a couple of days then work fine for a month

I've been gettin the same prob recently but i have a question, ive got an aftermaket alarm, now i didnt install it myself but the central locking should b running off the alrms actuators as the original ones ive been told r kinda dodgy??

if that the case then i shouldn't be gettin trouble with them over heating, especially not in this weather as its winter rite now and i didnt get it in summer!! so is there any other reason this would b happening and any way to fix it??

OLD AGE!!!!


mine "groan" (that's ummm the best way to describe it really) occasionally so i'm figuring they are eventually going to give up and refuse to work....

mine on the passenger side has allready stopped working, i am so annoyed i have to explain how to open the door to every person that gets in my car, their so bad i have to hold the lock back while pulling the handle.

i know i need to get this fixed soon, can anyone give me a rough price on what it will cost me for new acctuattor and labor?

ive heard about 60 - 80 for acctuators and 50- 100 for labor but not sure.

mine has started to play up...
but ive only noticed
that after i lock it...
i cant open the car with the remote
and when i use the key it opens...
but then i cant use central locking until i turn the accesories on and it will work again when i turn the car off

The actuators cost about $10 from Jaycar, a little more for the drivers side one I think.

I think the "master" ones were about $15

as for labour ... about 30-45 mins. I didn't even bother removing or disabling the old one, just disconnected all it's leads.

i heard a rumor that the stock acctuators work with an 8 second charge, which can burn out new acctuators which only require 2 - 4 seconds.

any one know about this?

The 8 second charge is what burnt out mine, so double check before putting the new ones in or you can burn them out too!

8 seconds is apparently the standard for Mercedes and many alarms are set up that way, so adjust your alarm to 2 seconds and all should be fine.

I posted more info about this in another thread, so do a search if you want more detail.