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My new daily drive changed from my polo to my T25. The reason my daughter now owns the polo I had to I owned a Renault trafic for over two years the polo or the trafic? Polo won every time.

Already decided a change of habit's does away with fast heating glow plug's well I did have a lot of help off here, my new problem central locking anyone fitted this? was it easy? Did it cost much (thinking scrap yard prices) I have only used my T25 5 times today and twice I left the passenger side door open (worse still 2out of 5 trips I was on my own)

Thanks

A change of habit is the answer. I've fitted two lots of central locking over 10 years - both became troublesome on and off and just failed eventually. Now I've got a routine each time I lock up and I check all doors - takes all of 1 minute. Up to you but its fiddly and time consuming to fit. Others may disagree but I wouldn't bother again, not considering the small time it takes to check everything is secure.

Aftermarket wise, right click seems to get good reviews. It is cheap and easy-ish to fit, running a wire to the tailgate will take time to do nicely and the contacts for the sliding door will probably cost as much as the whole right click kit again.
You could look out for a factory central locking kit, but they go for a lot of money

I got a generic CL kit off Amazon for around 25 notes and it works a treat.

I've only wired up the two front doors though, as I like to be able to operate the sliding door manually when camping and not fussed with having the tailgate included, so wiring was an easy case of just going from the driver door to the passenger under the dash.

The CL itself isn't big deal to me, but I do like the remote locking/unlocking which is included in the kit.

I probably wouldn't have bothered with the hassle for all locks, but for just the driver/passenger with remote locking it was worth the effort.

CovKid wrote:A change of habit is the answer. I've fitted two lots of central locking over 10 years - both became troublesome on and off and just failed eventually. Now I've got a routine each time I lock up and I check all doors - takes all of 1 minute. Up to you but its fiddly and time consuming to fit. Others may disagree but I wouldn't bother again, not considering the small time it takes to check everything is secure.

Thanks for the advice once again the cheaper solution is the simplest.

I always locked the polo with the key fob not the key except on a windy day as the alarm would go off I never failed to be able to get back in (using the key) without setting it off by using the usual key fob

greasemonkey wrote:I got a generic CL kit off Amazon for around 25 notes and it works a treat.

I've only wired up the two front doors though, as I like to be able to operate the sliding door manually when camping and not fussed with having the tailgate included, so wiring was an easy case of just going from the driver door to the passenger under the dash.

The CL itself isn't big deal to me, but I do like the remote locking/unlocking which is included in the kit.

I probably wouldn't have bothered with the hassle for all locks, but for just the driver/passenger with remote locking it was worth the effort.

Thanks for this reply I will try to get into the habit of checking all the door's if I fail to do this over the next week I will have a look at that bit of kit.

eddioke wrote:
Thanks for this reply I will try to get into the habit of checking all the door's

You should with central locking as well, as you won't know if it hasn't thrown a lock over.