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This is the central locking kit I will be installing, these things can range up to $100 for a kit at places like supercheap etc I won this one on eBay at a very good price, it works perfectly even on my old locks, although if your locks are a little stiff like mine were I recommend you give them a good grease while you are working on them. The URL for the eBay and online stores where you can get these items are: http://www.techieonthemove.com and http://stores.ebay.com.au/TECHIE-ON-THE-MOVE-Car-Accessories
I'd really recommend giving them a look, I've bought central locking with remote, central locking without remote, 9mm earthing lead kits and a car alarm all through this store and all items work perfectly.
This central locking kit comes without remote (the intent is to get the car alarm I also purchased installed and running this central locking, which will give me remote access). It is easy to understand the instructions. The installation was very difficult but that was primarily because the...

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This is the kit, it comes with a wiring harness, linkages, lock fittings for the linkages, screws for the lock fittings, a control unit and various screws and other small fittings. You may notice that it also has two masters, some central locking systems only include one master, so only locking/unlocking one door will lock them all, this one includes two, so you can install them in the front doors and either unlock the car from the passenger or drivers side.

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This is my old door trim on the back door, this will be the first door I will try since there is generally more space in the back door with no lock linkages to worry about.

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First we remove the arm wrest, this is done with a large philips head screwdriver. There are two screws underneath the arm wrest that are undone and it will literally fall off. This then leaves the door handle and winder handle easy to access.

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As was shown in the door handle removal guide, to remove the door handles you use a door handle remover (funnily enough), you push it behind the handle, between the handle and the plate it sits on, and push the spring clamp off. Once this is done the handle might need to be wiggled to come off.

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Next we remove the door trims, this can be a tricky part depending on your car, door trims always have their own needs in the way of tricks to get them off depending on the make/model. On the HR though they are fairly easy, the main thing to take care with though is that you don't rip the clips out of the trim itself or break the trim. The best way I've found is to slip a small screwdriver behind the trim and lever it out a little until you can see where a clamp is. Then slip the screwdriver in behind the clamp (so that the screw driver is pushing against the clamp not the trim) and lever the whole lot forward.