In a day or so I'm about to be installing a remote entry kit on a '95 TS which has central locking as factory standard.
My question (or problem) is where is the standard central locking unit kept? It wouldn't be so bad if it was in my car, has I installed the central locking & I can get to the main unit within a minute :D
Also if anyone has done this, is the standard unit anything like aftermarket units, where there is a spot for the expansion or will I have to alter some wiring?

Cheers

The central locking relay is in the driver's side kick panel. It is an easy 2 wire hookup, negative trigger to unlock wire, and negative trigger to lock wire. Just use a multimeter to determine which one is which, I can't remember off the top of my head.

Thanks for the info!

Will be giving this a shot first thing in the morning, should be interesting to see how it all goes :D

The other thing you can also do (and is what I did) was steal the central locking wires from the LH passenger door. THis was easiest for me since I mounted the main alarm unit near the ECU which is located on the LH kick panel.

Not sure what the cable colour codes are from top of my mind, but if u want them then yell out. I think you send it a negative pulse to the corresponding wires (ie. LOCK/UNLOCK).

Btw this is on an Executive. I think the SE and higher has ETACS, which is rather different.

I don't believe ETACS affects the operation of the central locking. Basically ETACS comprises of the the remote central locking unit, timers for interior light dimming, alarm etc. It also just triggers the central locking system just like any aftermarket remote central locking/alarm. The only thing you have to do is remember to disable the factory alarm or using your aftermarket unit will trigger the factory alarm.

Hmm...
Could there be a problem with tapping the passenger central locking if its not a master control unit?
Since I was talking about a TS SE (w/ factory central locking) it has 1 x master, 3 x slave units.
Which means that the wires going to the slave units are basically one way signals coming from the master relay, is it not?
TecoDaN, is it possible you have aftermarket central locking on yours? either way, seems as if your passenger door would be a master unit as well.

Anyway, thanks again for all the info teK, was all too easy :D
The installation was for my mums car for a xmas present, she doesnt know it yet, the idea was to install it while she was out shopping with my dad (thus having her car at home). So I had 3 hours to install it, thus trying to find out where the central locking unit was before I did anything.
It all went together way to easily, had everything back together long before she got home & tomorrow she can have the remotes :lol:
Cheers again !

TecoDaN, is it possible you have aftermarket central locking on yours? either way, seems as if your passenger door would be a master unit as well.


Well I do hope mine has geniune central locking!

Yes you are correct, there is one master actuator and three slaves, where the master actuator is on the drivers door. Which is why when you try to lock/unlock the passenger door via the interior lock, it does not activate the other locks.

However if you try to lock/unlock from the outside using the key, it does indeed activate the other locks. The reason for this is the keylock has an electronic switch which then sends the corresponding signal to the control unit. It is this line(s) that I tapped into.

I do have the schematics if anyone is interested.

Ah nice one,
Never thought about the keylock sending a signal back to the control unit like that.
So you've obviously hooked up an aftermarket alarm with the standard central locking? If so, how'd you hook up the indicators to the unit?
I figured that the back of the hazards which may have a wire spliting to all indicators, but thats not the case.

So you've obviously hooked up an aftermarket alarm with the standard central locking? If so, how'd you hook up the indicators to the unit?
I figured that the back of the hazards which may have a wire spliting to all indicators, but thats not the case.


Heh, thats a hard one. I did it though, but its too late for me to think how I wired it up. I do recall that I used the connections from the Hazard switch. But how on earth I did it i've forgotten. I'll look it up tommorow for ya when im actually awake :)

Well I've just been looking over some diagrams & found the wires that go from the hazard switch to the left & right side of the car.
Which means that I could spice/tap/whatever you wanna call it, two of those wires into the remote locking unit.
But I'd really prefer to only have to tap one wire, does anybody know if any single wire that can talk to all the indicators at once?

G'day,

I installed an Mongoose MX50 immobiliser/keyless entry unit myself on my TR.

This unit came with two wires for the indicators as the visual display that the car had been locked - L + R... I assume this is what you are referring to. These I hooked into the indicator wires at the steering column. Off memory the wires are both green, one with red fleck and one with blue fleck. Works a charm... Just make sure that the wires from your unit itself have in-line fuses.

Cheers,
Adam

Nice one :D

This unit only has one wire run for visual display, which is recommended to be run to the parkers. But honestly, which looks better, flashing parkers or flashing indicators :D

Thanks for sharing that though, running the wire to the steering column would be closer to the unit, might try that.
Cheers

If it only has 1 wire then you will have to use the parkers as you will end up with all you indicators flashing when you turn.
You can get around this with a double pole relay however

Sorry i havn't had time about posting the connection details....



If it only has 1 wire then you will have to use the parkers as you will end up with all you indicators flashing when you turn.
You can get around this with a double pole relay however


Thats right, if you have a single wire connection from the remote control unit, u cant just connect it directly to the indicator stalk. You will need some sort of relay. I can tell you now though that the Hazard switch has a built in double pole relay, which is why there are so many wires coming out of it.