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Retrofit Remote Central Locking Question

  • Jimnyash
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27 Aug 2012 16:00 - 27 Aug 2012 17:22 #46899 by Jimnyash
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Thanks guys.

Need to check it's a + or - coming out of the remote. I'm sure it's a +

My hazard switch only has 3 cables.

Facade: I was trying the Red/Green and Yellow/Green. Should I have been looking for the Green/Red & Green/Yellow (first colours run between switch and relay, second run from relay to lights).



Will try again.
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27 Aug 2012 18:19 #46907 by Tadpole
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I'm watching this with interest as thinking of doing the same if you get it to work ok .... :whistle:

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27 Aug 2012 19:16 #46916 by facade
I posted the colours earlier, Green wire/red stripe & green wire/yellow stripe ;) They go directly to the bulbs, touch a live to them and the bulbs will light up. You can splice into the main harness that goes to the back lights, it goes down the left hand side of the car, but the logical place is in the cable that goes to the turn signal relay

The wiring diagram you posted is for the late model car.
The Red wire/green stripe is the wrong wire, no idea how the column switch works, it has not been drawn in a way that I can interpret :unsure:

If it suddenly breaks, go back to the last thing that you did before it broke and start looking there :)
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27 Aug 2012 19:33 #46918 by Jimnyash
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Thanks Facade.

I was thinking it had to be joined before the relay and that the signal activated the relay which flashed the lights. This way I guess the live just powers the lights.

Rather oddly, this is the loom I have in my 2003. It also has the newer stereo connector.

I'll give this another try (although I think it's what I tried which blew the fuse earlier). Fingers crossed.

Thanks. :)

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27 Aug 2012 22:22 #46935 by facade
Find a 12V bulb, indicator, reverse light, rear foglight, (the load of 2 flasher bulbs + repeater is 45W so a front foglight might be too much), earth one end to the bodywork, and connect the remote unit indicator output to the other end of the bulb, just to check that it flashes ok before you start blowing any fuses again ;)

If it suddenly breaks, go back to the last thing that you did before it broke and start looking there :)
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28 Aug 2012 13:49 #46959 by p1ngu32
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With the jimny being negative switched, you might need to use your central locking unit to create an earth for the indicator switch, you can do this using a relay, wire the switching part of the relay up as normal but use the other 2 pins to earth the wire on the indicator module. If using a relay you could even have it flash the headlights as the relay would take the current and not your central locking module, and would probably be easier to tap into than the indicators.

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