Old Cars LAC

[rob]

Sorry about the LAC, but I thought my original post had an interesting 
resolution;

 Well I went to work on the Beemer yesterday in the freezing cold, cos the 
jammed door is by where my 5 month daughter sits in the car, and that door 
*needs to open*.

  Basically by getting out the jigsaw and hacking a large V shaped section 
out of the inner tinwork I got to the point where I could see the central 
locking servo clip mounted onto the top of the lock mechanism. I basically 
pried it off and threw it in the bin (after I established it was jammed), 
then voila I could unlock manually and open the door. Considering the 
alternative was a whole new door I'm fairly pleased.

 Now I have a perfectly working door lock that works just as it should from 
inside and outside, even the child-proof setting works. The only thing it 
doesn't do is respond to the central system.

 My point is that I never felt the need for central locking on the Jag, and 
I never had any such problem with the audi vacuum system in all these years 
(touch wood).

 So I guess this is my problem with newer cars, - we've spent 100 years or 
so perfecting the mechanical aspects of cars, but more and more functions 
are getting to be under the control of newfangled electric/electonic 
doodads, I'm not head-in-the-sand about all this, but some of this stuff 
appears to not have as long a life as I would like, and as the years go by I 
need less and less from a car. - just to get from A to B reliably and when 
they break I wanna fix em myself.. which my current old cars do, very 
cheaply..

  Cheers Rob.