I've got a July '99 AU Fairmont and I just noticed the other day that the drivers side rear door does not lock when you lock the car! Makes a funny noise and while the rest of the doors lock, you can still open that one! I am able to lock it by flicking a little switch thing near the child lock bullcrap so now the door is permanently locked and can only open from the inside, doesn't really bother me, but has anyone else ever experienced this problem? Don't even know how long it's been happening, I only noticed the other day because I locked the car while standing near that door and heard the noise, can't hear it if you go around, so god knows how long my door has been so easy to get into!!! Cheers anyway :)
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Doesn't the child lock stop you from being able to open the door from the inside, not the out? (ie stop little kiddies from getting out while your playing the pokies)
Yeah, I know the childlock is for locking from the inside But near that, there is a little gap in and you can see inside the door, it's hard to explain. There's this little black switch thing and if you flick it up it locks it like I explained. When you lock the car makes that funny clicking sound like it's trying to lock but cant, looking at the door and that, looks ok so I can't think of anything unless it's something electrical inside. Which of course means it will cost an arm and a leg. They wanted $137 dollars to replace the lock on the drivers door for the rear power windows, haha, I don't know how when it doesn't even look like the have to open the door, just put another clip in!
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It will be either a bent snipper rod (the rod under the lock button on the window ledge) or something stopping the free movement of that button - button not screwed on right or surround damaged
had a problem in my au ute to days ago. locked the doors using the remote, started to walk away and the horn sounded. walked back checked all the doors (all closed) and tried again, same thing. pulled the door lock out opened up the motor\gearbox case on the door lock and found a plastic shaft had broken. have to get a new one tommorrow! hopefully i wont have to buy a whole new lock!!
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I got it checked out last Friday and they said the central locking mechanism is rooted and will cost $237 to replace! I said no thanks, but still had to pay $50 cos they took the door apart!
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I have had the exact sae problem, the car locks sounding like a fart, the actuator inside the locking mechanism is broken, when it happend to me, we pulled it apart, and founf it to be a plastic screwing kindof peice ( worth about 2c ) however ford will not replace the small part, not do they have a fix for this "common fault". i ended up melting the screw back together ( the part that is broken does not use thread, so there shouldnt be a problem with the door not locking properly) otherwise going to a toolmaker to see how much it would cost to make the part out of metal
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But near that, there is a little gap in and you can see inside the door, it's hard to explain. There's this little black switch thing and if you flick it up it locks it like I explained. When you lock the car makes that funny clicking sound like it's trying to lock but cant, looking at the door and that, looks ok so I can't think of anything unless it's something electrical inside. Which of course means it will cost an arm and a leg. They wanted $137 dollars to replace the lock on the drivers door for the rear power windows, haha, I don't know how when it doesn't even look like the have to open the door, just put another clip in!
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