Fitting After Market Remote Central Locking

[TotalTraining]

Hi, thanks for the add to the forum. I have a 2003 Mk6 Transit that has been converted to a campervan. It has central locking but it is not manual and the key / lock is a bit dodgy. Anyhow, I bought one of those "after market" remote central locking fobs / units from eBay and started fitting it. Took the door liner off to find the wires, expecting probably two or three wires but there are like 7 or so. On the new CL unit there are six wires, orange, white, yellow, orange/black, white/black and yellow/black. I did put the orange, white and yellow into the connector in the door harness and the doors locked but kept on cycling trying to lock again about 3 times. This was without pressing the fob.

Can anybody shed any light as to which wires I need to connect from the new CL unit to the wires in the door harness as I have trawled the internet and cannot find a door circuit diagram to help. I thought, naively, that there would only be two or three that make the circuit when the key is turned either one way or the other.

Any help would be massively appreciated.

[TotalTraining]

Well so far I've managed to wire the unit to lock and unlock front doors using the green / black and the orange / black wires. I have also found that if all doors are unlocked the new fob will lock everything but it only unlocks the front door. If I short the black / green wire with the black / white wire it will unlock side and rear doors but if I leave permanently connected it doest unlock but if I break the circuit and short it again it will unlock. If I can't find a solution I will connect these 2 wires to a push switch in the back so I can open the sliding door from inside the back when it has been locked overnight.


I'll update when I sort something out, any tips appreciated

[Altransit]

On the standard fob, pressing the unlock button once, unlocks the front doors. Pressing it a second time, unlocks the back doors as well.
You may be able to re-configure the unlocking via Forscan, so that one press unlocks all if that's what you want, but I'm not sure if it's possible.

[knobby1]

On the standard fob, pressing the unlock button once, unlocks the front doors. Pressing it a second time, unlocks the back doors as well.
You may be able to re-configure the unlocking via Forscan, so that one press unlocks all if that's what you want, but I'm not sure if it's possible.

Yes it is Sir..! There's several different configurations available.

Lord Knobrot

[TotalTraining]

Cheers for the replies. When I bought the van it did not have a fob, just manual central locking with the key. I did see on a post about turning the ignition on and off ten times would allow me to re-program a new fob but I tried this and it did not work. I have now wired a push switch in so I can now unlock the rear doors from the inside so this should suffice for now but would have been nice if I could have just done it all from the fob.

Cheers

[Altransit]

You should be able to unlock the rear doors by turning the key to unlock, twice (rapidly)