LC 100 Central Locking

Hi Barry, I've got the same model, no problems on mine but wouldn't it be covered under warranty ?
Regards
Chris

Barry,

Might be worth the trip to Toyota. They probably have a computer they can hook up for this sort of fault diagnosis.

You could spend days trying to track it yourself - unless you had a computer hooked up to the vehicle.Motley

stab in the dark here, but the 80 cruisers sometimes had problems with the door/courtasy switches. When all the doors are shut does the dash warning light stay on? The door that wont lock may have the funny switch. To test this theory, tape a paddle pop stick or something like that to the door where the switch strikes and see if it makes any difference.
If you have been getting this rain, it may have effected a switch.
Andrew

Barry,

Have an 80 series with alarm which operates the remote switching for the central locking. Have had the same problem intermittantly. What I found is that if one door is not quite shut, it would not lock, turns out that it was mainly the rear lift up door. It was strange that our interior light was not staying on to indicate that the door was not shut correctly. However the indicator in the dash was showing that a door was not shut. Did not understand why this dash light come on and not interior light as well. Just something to look at, when happens look through window at dash and see if this warning light is on. (I imagine that 100 series would have them.) Played with switches, going okay now but for how long?, because I don't now what I really did to fix it.

Barry,

Been thinking about this today, and reckon a relay may be buggered. The central locking may have a 2 way relay, can't think of proper name, similar to type used on h/duty headlight wiring looms. Have you got a manual, that has the circuits on it? Hooroo...

So this would be a problem with a $70,000 Toyota? Unbelievable, I thought this only happened to Landrovers? Or so we would be led to believe by the B.S. that goes through this site.

My mate just bought a 100 GXL auto diesel and the gearbox kacked it after 2400 kms. Repaired under warrenty but again I could believe that anything went wrong with these Toyotas.

Lets face it....all vehicles have problems, it's only the urban myths that say some have much more than others.