Locked driver’s door

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.

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

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?

Notanumber wrote:

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.
 

"Reputable Insurer" that surely has to be the oxymoron of the year! 🤣

Its NK wire (Brown with pink tracer) to cut to disable the superlock on a TF as Airportable says

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

When I lock my 2004 (Pektron) TF with the fob there is a big click and lots of flashing from the indicator lights.  I assume this is superlocking enabled in some kind of automatic mode.  AFAIK, you can't turn this off with pscan.  I've got enough trouble with my locks as it is:  the EKA doesn't work, the interior lights sometimes take 30-40 seconds before coming on etc...

We really do need a supplier of reconditioned RHD driver's side locks!

That brown and pink wire is getting snipped at the first opportunity!

 This has been a fascinating subject. Is the cutting of the Brown with Pink trace to disable  'Supalock' the same for all TF's ( Lucas and Pectron )  ?  The reason for asking is that some years ago , 8 to be precise , I had just purchased my 05 plate TF which had only one working fob of two supplied when I bought the car. Technozen  came to my rescue as Paul Brown was able to sort out the non working fob and replace the pesky relays that fail in the BCU however , when I refitted the unit and locked the car I noticed that it supalocked the doors with one rather than two presses of the lock button. This has not been a problem for me but after reading the recent posts on this subject I'm  wondering if I should look into this next year when the car comes out of hibernation . I do have Pscan but was not aware that it can disable Supalock . Has anyone tried this with Pscan?
John 

Wire cutters do a fine job.

Whilst cutting the wire will prevent superlock why is it thought necessary to do that?
My experience relates to the Lucas system but I suspect the details within the lock case are similar if not identical for both Lucas and Pectron systems.
I agree that if the lock on the passenger side ceases to function whilst superlocked then nothing that anyone can do will release the lock.
On the driver's side it is my belief that the key should overcome superlock (but you might need to disconnect the battery first).
If either lock has suffered internal component failure such that broken parts "jam up" a crucial part of the system or prevent a vital movement then it will not matter one bit if it is superlocked or not in my opinion.

Notanumber wrote:

Wire cutters do a fine job.
Hmm, i was thinking more in the way of  removing the offending wire from the plug ( unpinning ) 
this would allow me to repin it if anything untoward happened.  
J 
 

That's a sensible approach.