Installed central locking into my 1993 Defender

[2234jones]

Central locking installation in a defender
Hi all, I was so pleased with my seats, I have now installed central locking to add further luxury to it, here are the steps I did when I installed it.

First get your central locking kit, my was $3-00 from a charity shop,good find! but a kit costs about $49-00 from super cheap autos.

The only thing missing was the instructions and wiring diagram, but I found a wiring diagram on the net and installation was quite easy. but it did take four hours to install.

First check all the parts are in the box.






The next thing is to position your central locking relay unit, I chose in the fuse box as there was room and it's quite central.



Remove the panels on the door, by prying the clips and removing the screws from the door handle and window winding handle.




Heres the back door




I placed the actuator where I was going to have the unit and I then bent the bracket supplied in the kit, drilled the holes and riveted the bracket.







I then bent the rod to link the actuator to the locking mechanism.



Once i did this, I then screwed the actuator into place with the rod fitted, I then screwed the joint block onto the new and old rod.



I then wired the unit through the door and and placed the door panel back on.



I placed a grommit to prevent the wires getting worn by the sharp edges.

Then after I did the rear doors, I then did the front doors.

The front doors are different to the rear and the bracket looked like this.



Again after i had installed the unit and you have to make sure the rods are bent square and not on an angle other than 90 degrees.

On the fronts there is a hole on the lock mechanism, where you attach the new rod and check the actuator is fully in and the door is locked.








I then again threaded the wire through the door.

Once this was done I replaced the door panel and then wired in the relay unit to the fuse box compartment.



I placed a link fuse for the central locking system, and then closed all of the doors and hey prestow, my 1993 defender has working central locking. yipee.

thanks Mark

[dcm]

good job. mate.

[spudboy]

Central locking! Have you gone soft man

No - seriously, good job and well documented. Thanks for posting.

[Mulgo]

Want to install that into my 2002 Defender which is a 130 so nothing of those 110 gadgets factory installed.

Now the plan is to link it with the standard LR alarm - which I did install a while ago. Has anybody tried to link an aftermarket central locking system to the standard LR alarm system?

Does anybody know into which wires I have to hock it up?

Thanks.

Cheers,
Daniel

[9w2LYL]

good job...

I had my dismantled due to battery running flat problem, my one came with alarm system where power supply is require in stand by mood. Some how the current lost from the system and forced me to take them out.
Make sure you align the actuator (the puller?) perfectly else you will have a faulty and worst case you will have a broken actuator..

cheer

[Mulgo]

OK. Job done - CL is working when I lock either of the front doors - what a luxury!

Now as in my earlier post, the plan is to hook the CL up to the LR genuine alarm so that I could use the remote to open the doors.

No idea if that will work at all.

Need input on how I have to hook up the white and brown cable from the CL (see attached pic).

Thanks.

Cheers,
Daniel

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[Ampo]

This tells you how to do it:
Defender TD5 Central Locking

I just used a couple of 2 wire universal solonoids from e-bay on the front doors and they work fine with my LR remote; however at the moment it will only lock and arm the alarm, and unlock and disarm the alarm, so I'm keeping my eye open for a genuine LR drivers door solonoid with 4 wires which should give me all the options described in the owners manual.

[Mulgo]

This tells you how to do it:
Defender TD5 Central Locking

I just used a couple of 2 wire universal solonoids from e-bay on the front doors and they work fine with my LR remote; however at the moment it will only lock and arm the alarm, and unlock and disarm the alarm, so I'm keeping my eye open for a genuine LR drivers door solonoid with 4 wires which should give me all the options described in the owners manual.

Thanks for that - will try over the weekend.

Here in Australia you can buy the 4-wires solonoid at a automotive spare parts shop - no need to get LR standard ones.

Cheers,
Daniel

[2234jones]

Hi all,

Just keeping you up to date, I have now installed a rear door actuator so all five doors lock and open, and I have also now upgraded the central locking to remote. It has made life so much easier and as I installed myself, it has cost a grand total of $45-00. Not bad I think.

I will post pictures for the rear door later.

Thanks Mark

[abaddonxi]

And added to the Good Oil central locking thread -
http://www.aulro.com/afvb/good-oil/4...nty-110-a.html