Peugeot 306 alarm + door central locking problems

Hey all,

I've got a '96 1.4 XR which I love dearly.
An amazingally unprofessional electrician installed a Clifford XL500
alarm system in the car about 9 years ago, gravely harming it. After
surviving this attack from the electrician, the car lived rather
happily and the alarm system worked fine (after fixing a battery
drainage problem): the fob locked and unlocked the car doors using its
central locking system. Oddly, the driver door lock did not engage door
central locking - only the passenger side door. Since I've only used
the fob, I did not care.

Up until a year ago, the car was a hot and dry climate - no rain. I've
had to move and now the car is in a wetter climate - I've had water
leak in through the door. I've had to dismantle the door trim to
discover the missing door membranes removed by the horrible
electrician, and left the door trim unfastened for a week or so -
during which it hardly rained. I bought polyethylene sheets (because a
Peugeot door membrane kit is impossible get) and duct tape and decided
to fix the problem myself.

Just before I started working on the membranes (never even got to
taking off the unfastened door trim), I've noticed that the door
central locking is malfunctioning. Oddly, it now only locks the car -
unlocking the car cannot be done with the fob, only with the key. The
car has experienced a year of rains so I doubt this has anything to do
with it but I'm not sure.

I'm suspecting the passenger side servo is malfunctioning and not
triggering the unlocking in the entire car - I'm hearing a tick during
locking but not during unlocking. Not sure about this - will double
check tomorrow.

Anyhow have any idea what the problem might be?

Thanks,

Alon

 

Dodgy locking-solenoid or door-to-body wiring loom fracture?

 

Why would a wiring loom fracture do this?

How do I test the solenoid - can I do this myself?

 

Our car (Pug 306, 1998/S) will now not centrally lock with key on
drivers door (that door locks, but the others won't), but works
perfectly on the passenger door. Unlocking centrally works on both
doors. This situation is caused by the request to lock driver's door
signal wire being broken at some point - likely to be in the driver's
door hinge loom.

As far as I know, reading on here, practically all dodgy central locking
issues are down to wiring issues. And practically all these wiring
issues are in the door hinges. Peugeot and electrics aren't that
reliable from what I gather (cue Jeremy Clarkson's comments about french
cars catching fire in Paris).

D

 

Happily, I have experienced a new and lovely problem:
The car won't start. If I turn the key to ATT mode, the
radio/lights/horn etc work just fine.
When I try to start the car - I hear the starter motor turn for a
quarter of a second then freeze -
and everything fades to black. Turning the key back to ATT, or any
other mode, never returns
power - I have to disconnect the battery hook cable and reconnect it -
only to experience the
same lovely behaviour once more.

This has occured right after the first problem started.

Have any ideas?

Alon

 

and now, suddenly, it works once more.
I have no idea what the hell is going on. Could a starter motor freeze
cause electrical problems?

 

Could be a dodgy earth somewhere.