adding remote locking

[Pat Korach]

I hooked my keyless remote up to the wiring for the passenger door lock/alarm.
Worked great because the keyless system had built in relays.  Mounted the box
behind the glove compartment and ran the antenna along the dash.

Pat Korach
89 200TQ

Roa, Greg wrote:

> Seriously, I would consider heading to a Circuit City, or other alarm place, if you have a remote system you are using.  The actuators they have there are made for doing exactly what you want, they have a nice little coupler to hook onto the lock rod, and they are pretty cheap.  Mine was under $30, made by DEI, and works very well.
> I would think it would be an awful lot easier than re-engineering the vacuum system.
>
> Good Luck!
> Greg Roa
> Cincinnati, OH
> 86' 4kcsq
> 93' 90 CS
> 83' 944
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Marc Swanson [mailto:mswanson at mswanson.com]
> Sent: Thursday, June 20, 2002 9:06 AM
> To: Roa, Greg; quattro at audifans.com; David.Ullrich at ferguson.com
> Subject: Re: adding remote locking
>
> > Sure.   By far the easiest way for me to do it, was to add either an alarm
> > or a remote locking switch that has relays built into it for a lock
> > actuator.  Then, purchase a lock actuator for about $25-$30 at the local
> > Circuit City or other electronics store of choice. Wire the actuator in,
> > and hook it's rod up to the lock pin rod.  Then, when you hit your remote,
> > the actuator pulls or pushes on the lock pin, just like you were sitting in
> > the car and doing it yourself. Problem with trying to do it electrically,
> > is that there is no existing actuator in the driver's side door (at least
> > on the 4kq).  There is a vacuum switch type thingy, but it senses the
> > position of the lock, and activates the central vacuum pump.
>
> I just found this out the hard way last night.  It didn't occur to me that
> the lock rod in the drivers door would not be actuated by vacuum.  I think
> what I'm going to do is either try to fit an actuator from a 90 in there or
> install a slave actuator like the ones in the other doors in there to
> push/pull on the existing rod.
>
> Later
>
> -Marc-
> 87 4ktq
> 88 90q