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finalanarchy
05-02-2008, 11:39 PM
Ok, Since i have had this car the locks have always "popped" or "double locked" I finally traced it to the actuator for the boot lock. some one had swapped the blue and white wires over ( cut them, striped them, twisted them together and electrical taped them up :( ). after reversing this everything seemed fine, but i noticed that the boot was now unsync'ed from the rest of the car. I wondered if a non-oem part was put in so i pulled it out and it was bmw, checked the part number ( 8350181 ) and all checked out. So i tried to re-sync the locks, that didn't help either.

Also as far as i can tell the wire harness on the boot hinge looks mint.

I am now at a loss, as to what is happening.
Any ideas? :p

Paul in NZ
05-03-2008, 12:12 AM
did you actually look at the hinge wiring ?Untape it i bet a couple of wires are on their last legs...

finalanarchy
05-03-2008, 12:16 AM
I found the problem it was to do with the actual key lock, weird.
I will post pictures to describe what was happening.

finalanarchy
05-03-2008, 12:43 AM
No I didn't, I don't plan to check them now as i have found what the problem was. but my high brake light is weak so i will untape them and have a look.

I am also from/in NZ :D .

here was the problem
Lock in "broken" position (http://i216.photobucket.com/albums/cc196/finalanarchy/car/lock1.jpg)

here was the solution
Lock fixed (http://i216.photobucket.com/albums/cc196/finalanarchy/car/lock2.jpg)