Golf mk4 locking issues driving me mad
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So I made the mistake of recently selling my immaculate mk5 gti and was looking for an equally mint edition 30 mk5 gti to replace it, or a tidy e46 m3 sub 9k
I got fed up of feeling cheeky borrowing a car from my relatives so decided to pick up a cheap but pokey golf mk4 or 328i e36 something along those lines. Sub £1500.
Lots of high mileage 4 motions and 328is crossed my path before I woke up on a day off to discover a fairly local golf 4 motion 2.8 v6 in dark blue 99k miles, haldex serviced, good service history etc etc, full black leather, sunroof, but an early x reg 2000 model with a lot of previous owners .... £1500
So I go to looks and it's the typical nice tidy looking car needing a few jobs doing and the owner came down to 1250 after I found the following faults;
Rear lecky window only goes down 4" before it decides not to go any lower (might have a look no Biggy)
Thermostat bad as car not getting to temp (I replaced it for £4.70 with part from eurocarparts and is now perfect)
Only one working key
Mirror cover cracked
Wheel centre caps chipped and painted pealing (resprayed those ok now)
Central locking issue (see below)
Rear wiper not working nor wash wipe (rectifying with 2nd hand unit off ebay tomorrow)
Right well, basically the car unlocks and locks fine but when driving around the car just locks and unlocks the drivers door if I'm the only dweller that journey. When the engine is shut off the car unlocks.... Fine must be anti hijack locks
If a passenger gets in the front the circumstances change, their door locks and unlocks around 10 mph and drives me mad as it seems to lock and unlock more than neccissary ?!
Also my drivers door is the only door that doesn't activate the interior lights when getting inside the car and that the micro switches are a pig to replace due to having to remove the window glass etc etc?! The door never shows as still open on the dash warning icon though so maybe it thinks it's constantly closed?!
I hate anti hijack locks anyway is there any way I could disable this and that the centrL locking may work as normal?! My friend has vancom but says I need to find a code for disabling antihijack locking?!
Any help greatly appreciated
P.s don't intend to keep the car too long so will never sell it for what it's really worth like this😂😫😓😰😡
That vr6 sounds lovely with a AHEM drilled airbox
I got fed up of feeling cheeky borrowing a car from my relatives so decided to pick up a cheap but pokey golf mk4 or 328i e36 something along those lines. Sub £1500.
Lots of high mileage 4 motions and 328is crossed my path before I woke up on a day off to discover a fairly local golf 4 motion 2.8 v6 in dark blue 99k miles, haldex serviced, good service history etc etc, full black leather, sunroof, but an early x reg 2000 model with a lot of previous owners .... £1500
So I go to looks and it's the typical nice tidy looking car needing a few jobs doing and the owner came down to 1250 after I found the following faults;
Rear lecky window only goes down 4" before it decides not to go any lower (might have a look no Biggy)
Thermostat bad as car not getting to temp (I replaced it for £4.70 with part from eurocarparts and is now perfect)
Only one working key
Mirror cover cracked
Wheel centre caps chipped and painted pealing (resprayed those ok now)
Central locking issue (see below)
Rear wiper not working nor wash wipe (rectifying with 2nd hand unit off ebay tomorrow)
Right well, basically the car unlocks and locks fine but when driving around the car just locks and unlocks the drivers door if I'm the only dweller that journey. When the engine is shut off the car unlocks.... Fine must be anti hijack locks
If a passenger gets in the front the circumstances change, their door locks and unlocks around 10 mph and drives me mad as it seems to lock and unlock more than neccissary ?!
Also my drivers door is the only door that doesn't activate the interior lights when getting inside the car and that the micro switches are a pig to replace due to having to remove the window glass etc etc?! The door never shows as still open on the dash warning icon though so maybe it thinks it's constantly closed?!
I hate anti hijack locks anyway is there any way I could disable this and that the centrL locking may work as normal?! My friend has vancom but says I need to find a code for disabling antihijack locking?!
Any help greatly appreciated
P.s don't intend to keep the car too long so will never sell it for what it's really worth like this😂😫😓😰😡
That vr6 sounds lovely with a AHEM drilled airbox
Cheers for the help
Ive spent some time on the other jobs yesterday like the windscreen wiper and rear electric window fault and ive repaired both for just £23 in bits the rear window only cost £0.94 to repair as i found a "spreader plug" had come out and the glass just needed lining back up into its regulator support and resecuring with the spreader plug.
Pretty sure my passenger side lock module needs replacing as its that one that keeps fidgetting up and down either side of 10mph where as the others do not. The interior light goes on and off when opening that door fine though?!
The drivers door does not activate the interior lights however it does lock fine
Maybe both from lock modules required some loving?!
Ive spent some time on the other jobs yesterday like the windscreen wiper and rear electric window fault and ive repaired both for just £23 in bits the rear window only cost £0.94 to repair as i found a "spreader plug" had come out and the glass just needed lining back up into its regulator support and resecuring with the spreader plug.
Pretty sure my passenger side lock module needs replacing as its that one that keeps fidgetting up and down either side of 10mph where as the others do not. The interior light goes on and off when opening that door fine though?!
The drivers door does not activate the interior lights however it does lock fine
Maybe both from lock modules required some loving?!
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