Central locking replacement

[ian]

My daughter has a 1999 Seat Cordoba she is having trouble with the central locking and was told she needs 2 new front activators for the doors,
Can she just go to some where like Strathfield car radio and get a genetic one installed it there place ???

[h100vw]

Seat central locking will be vacuum operated. So there's no chance Strathfield will be able to do that. They would want to replace the lot with electric motors. This had been done on my old Toldeo and they don't have a way to do the boot, so that then doesn't unlock with the rest of the car.

Most locking problems are down to leaks in the system, there's a vac pump in the boot. These can burn out, if there's a leak the pump keep trying to maintain the vacuum and overheats before burning out. No fires, just really nasty smells.

You can trouble shoot it easy enough though. The pipes run down the sills IIRC, so following them and checking the joints is the first thing to do.

Gavin

[ian]

the car has been to a seat repairer in QLD and he said it needs 2 excentrics/2 carriers/and 2 springs but cant buy the parts , thats why i was trying to find out if it can be changed for the electric ones

[h100vw]

Where in QLD is the car?

Gavin

[ian]

My Daughter lives at Varsity Lakes she bought the car for her son to get his license , if you can help her I'd appreciate it pm me for her phone number if you can help thanks

[h100vw]

Pmd you ian