Check Your Deadlocks

[Guest tanktop3]

someone as tryed to get in my car by removing my front and back door key hole covers on offside.

but they did not get in. on telling a friend of this i said that the car had deadlocks on and went on to show her this, so with a window open i lock the car so that the deadlocks where on. the back doors deadlock, but not the front ones, both front door open from inside the car.

check door lock but they are sealed and the door cental locking works ok so power is there.

any idea how to fixs this.

[techbod]

sounds like the security system needs resetting and get a bass ball bat for the offender lol

[techbod]

actually im not being funny about this because a base ball bat is considered a weapon if not used for what its designed for but a walking stick is a tool to aid you and has the same power as a baseball bat so your staying within the law ;)

[stimulator]

What year is your C3?

 

We have two in our household.

 

One is a 2004 54 reg 1.4 HDI SX.

 

To activate the door locks, pressing the blipper ONCE will deadlock the doors. This inhibits the internal door levers.

However this is a dangerous situation to leave the car in with an occupant so Citroen in their wisdom made the system respond to a second press on the blipper locking button. This Locks the door handles on the exterior BUT leaves the internal levers active.

 

The other C3 is a 2007 07 reg 1.6 HDi SX.

 

To activate the door locks, pressing the blipper once leaves the interior levers active so occupants can get out but others can't get in.

The second press of the lock blipper dead locks the car doors.

 

As you can see this is the reverse of the earlier car.

 

If your blipper stops working you can lock the car by using the override devices on the doors. These are under small black plastic discs or in some cases exposed and look like a large Phillips X head screw. Use your key to turn them a 1/4 turn. Now shut the door. Note that these are one shot devices and when the door is opened from inside they release, NOTE they are not dead locks.

[Guest tanktop3]

What year is your C3?

 

We have two in our household.

 

One is a 2004 54 reg 1.4 HDI SX.

 

To activate the door locks, pressing the blipper ONCE will deadlock the doors. This inhibits the internal door levers.

However this is a dangerous situation to leave the car in with an occupant so Citroen in their wisdom made the system respond to a second press on the blipper locking button. This Locks the door handles on the exterior BUT leaves the internal levers active.

 

The other C3 is a 2007 07 reg 1.6 HDi SX.

 

To activate the door locks, pressing the blipper once leaves the interior levers active so occupants can get out but others can't get in.

The second press of the lock blipper dead locks the car doors.

 

As you can see this is the reverse of the earlier car.

 

If your blipper stops working you can lock the car by using the override devices on the doors. These are under small black plastic discs or in some cases exposed and look like a large Phillips X head screw. Use your key to turn them a 1/4 turn. Now shut the door. Note that these are one shot devices and when the door is opened from inside they release, NOTE they are not dead locks.

 

it's a 03 reg 53 1.4 HDI SX by pressing the blipper ONCE it should deadlock the doors but it only deadlocks the back doors

[techbod]

sounds like you have a problem with the front locks,

 

how2 with double locking,

press lock button once activates double locking and alarm,

press lock button within 5 seconds after you have locked it deactivates the double locking,

 

only diagnostics can probe the system for faults and reset it.

 

could it be you have the child locks on the rear doors and disabled double locking?

[stimulator]

I thought about this again this morning on the way to work, the rerar doors have two ways of activating child locks, one is on the dash by the radio the other is a slider on the door by the lock. If these are ON then the rear doors will appear to be deadlocked from the insdie.

[techbod]

^^very true and the other problem is the electronics on the new cars for-whatever reason seems to get confused ( the price of technology and system chatter as its called switches things off so unpredictable ) things like the doors are rarely checked to see if they works and most rely on the plip/remote too much,

most common fault I've found is the locks need resetting due to the plip being used out of range and the code is lost then it has to be reset by the dealers unless you know how to get round it and should be in the book but what I do now and then is to check all is working correctly and in the C3 case lock and press the button within 5 seconds to disable the dead locks to see if they work because in lots of cases it resets the system all by its self

[Ann du Plessis]

Hi, my name is Ann.

Is this a common problem for Cotroen, or does it only happen to C3 owners. My daughter has the same problem with her C3 2003 model.

[paul.h]

Welcome to the forum.

 

Could you give some details of the problem with your daughter's car since in the previous posts a few things have been mentioned.