Unusual Central locking problem.. 2001 X5

[shedtastic]

Originally Posted by upallnight

Have you tried hitting the remote twice to unlock the rear doors? My car originally required me to hit the remote twice to unlock the front and rear doors, but I had the car re-coded to open all the doors with just one push of the remote. I also coded the car to open and close all the windows and sunroof with the remote.

I certainly have to double press the 'unlock' - only the driver's door tries to unlock on the first press. But that second press provides a 30% chance of unlocking the passenger door, and 0% of the rears..

Originally Posted by andrewwynn

Sounds like actuator problem to me. Wife's car has three failing actuators. They each have two motors. One for lock one for unlock. You can have either one fail so you can have a door that won't lock or won't unlock.

They usually fail slowly where they will unlock sometimes or only when warm outside.

Certainly it has got worse now it's got cold..

Joy - just looked those up on BavAuto $214 each.. If the existing Actuators are not repairable, at those prices, I'm going to have to pick one door door of the three to repair.. I'd better fix one before the Driver's one packs up too.. Don't want to be needing to climb in through the trunk / boot..

Perhaps will monitor the pick-a-part stock lists..

Thanks for the input!