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The super lock conundrum comes around as sure as Halley’s Comet but more frequently & it usually has the same sort of effect as a fox in a hen house with panicked people doing the headless chicken run.
My guess is that it’s so infrequently used & ill understood that as soon as some problem is reported by a frantic member the panic flag gets run up the mast. It was after a traumatic event a good number of years ago did I disable my S/L as a knee jerk reaction, determined for it not to catch me out.
I forget about it until the frantic comet flashes past.
Problems will be few & far between but create an unhinged flap amongst the flock when someone gets locked out; it’s the same effect when someone locks their keys in the boot or the bonnet pop doesn’t & you end up breaking a rear lamp or shredding skin off your arm in the desperate attempt to get the bonnet open. That bit happens when you tug the boot release with too much vim, in that moment of annoyance, having an urgent meeting coinciding with a puncture on the same morning.
This is, as you know all too well the law according to sod.
My guess is the antipodeans will have a more colourful turn of phrase & I’m certain our treasured resident Strine will help in that respect.
M
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Its NK wite (Brown with pink tracer) to cut to disable the superlock on a TF as Airportable says
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"Reputable Insurer" that surely has to be the oxymoron of the year! 🤣Talking of car insurance I've just found out my daughter has been paying £2500 a year to insure her tiny 1.2 litre Fiat 500. Late 20s, 5 years no claims and they've been insisting on the indignity of a damnable black box too. WTF. Like a mug she had stayed with the same company and just assumed it was normal for the premiums to keep increasing and so had doubted she could afford to run anything a bit quicker.. Now we've had a conversation she's moved to a different insurer for around £ 500 plus the penny has dropped she's she can feasibly upgrade to a faster car whilst still saving money compared to her old premiums. I do wonder how the hell a reputable insurer can regard such blatant overcharging as remotely ethical.
Then there's us agonising about the whys and wherefores of dispensing with the pointless and troublesome superlock, remapping an ECU to improve economy, painting our wheels a different colour etc.etc.
No doubt these profiteering wankers would charge motorcyclists higher premiums for not having an ashtray if they could.
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I think that the idea behind the "super lock " facility was to prevent someone from reaching in and just pulling the locking button whilst the hood is down.
Why should that disable being able to gain access via the use of the key?
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Disabling super lock, although better done behind the centre console, at the main connector, it can easily be done by removing the door cards, locating the door lock connectors (2, one 6 way the other a 2 way as far as I recall), pop both off the door & separate, this will make it easier, then cut the brown wire with pink tracer*. As I’ve said before I’ve fitted bullet connectors to reconnect if required.
* Please check those colour before laying waste to your wiring.
M
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You mentioned welding. it's worth you doing a shout on this and the other forums and maybe the F/ TF farcebook pages asking for any owners in your part of Bristol who could pop by with their mig welder for a few beer tokens. Include photos of what needs welding.
Most owners are usually happy to help out another and there are lot of us with mig welders. Unfortunately I'm on the opposite side of the country otherwise I'd do it.
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Talking of car insurance I've just found out my daughter has been paying £2500 a year to insure her tiny 1.2 litre Fiat 500. Late 20s, 5 years no claims and they've been insisting on the indignity of a damnable black box too. WTF. Like a mug she had stayed with the same company and just assumed it was normal for the premiums to keep increasing and so had doubted she could afford to run anything a bit quicker.. Now we've had a conversation she's moved to a different insurer for around £ 500 plus the penny has dropped she's she can feasibly upgrade to a faster car whilst still saving money compared to her old premiums. I do wonder how the hell a reputable insurer can regard such blatant overcharging as remotely ethical.
Then there's us agonising about the whys and wherefores of dispensing with the pointless and troublesome superlock, remapping an ECU to improve economy, painting our wheels a different colour etc.etc.
No doubt these profiteering wankers would charge motorcyclists higher premiums for not having an ashtray if they could.
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On my 2004 TF 135, before I got a pscan, I had mixed success with cheap ELM 327 OBD2 readers from eBay costing around a fiver. I have one that works with the TF and one that doesn't. The latter isn't faulty though because it works fine with my MB VIto.
These readers communicate with the phone, via bluetooth, running an app called Torque. Bluetooth is the problem here for iPhone users. My understanding is that Apple, in their wisdom, chose not to implement bluetooth in the same way as others.
One solution would be to pick up a cheap second-hand Android phone specifically for use with Torque and your chosen OBD2 reader. You wouldn't need a sim card, just download Torque via WiFi and away you go.
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I am going to look this disabling the superlock up. It has no use to me.
If my car gets stolen my claim form will state the car was locked at the time.
An assesor will never get near these cars in a normal theft/accident they are just written off.
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If you have concerns about the superlock, you can just cut the wire to disable it permanently. There are posts on how to do this. It seems very simple if you want to do that. I don't think it adds much in terms of security and the low value of these cars means they are not that likely to be stolen.
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I have a disclock on the steering wheel, on the drive I have a roof cover, so I leave them unlocked.
Not least as a good downpour sets the alarm off.
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re#21026
After partially dismantling the item I removed a few months ago I think that reversing polarity through the superlock might be wrong as it only seems to operate a pawl.
Exactly how it all works is still a mystery. I might start a new thread on this to avoid detracting from the original post.
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After a lot of searching etc
I am a a little suspicious and awaiting a message back from the vendor but this item suggests compatibility wit iPhone etc
eBay item number:126811475001
Might be worth “a punt” if the item on order fails.
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