1994 3.9 Soft dash - central locking cock-up

Hi, the central locking wasn't working on the o/s passenger door so I tried to trace the problem (as all idiots do!) and found that a feed for the n/s door got it to work so, I bypassed the old wiring from car to door and put 2 temporary wires in attached to the old plugs. OOOppps, the old wires must have been shorted somewhere as I got smoke from on of the 'new' joins, ripped it off immediately (and since found the offending wires that were touching and have cut that section out and rewired it) but, now the central locking doesn't work at all and, the starter now won't engage . WTF have I done? This is all work in progress as anyone whose seen my other threads will know (why should I keep the pain all to myself?). All help much appreciated.

Sounds like you have blown a fuse somewhere, has it got an immobilizer linked to the central locking.

It might be time to go back into the house for today!!! It's not your day matey

Looked at C7 fuse, which is supposed to be the one for central locking, perfect. I honestly don't know if there's a separate immobiliser on the central locking, (it's got a separate immobiliser but that's on ignition only). Not had a problem like this before as the car is a recent acquisition and hasn't been on the road for over 12 months, currently on a friends farm. Anybody know if there's more than one fuse on the central locking? Or if there is an immobiliser on the c/l circuit? Cheers

Have now checked every fuse I could find and there are several with just the open book on but no description, one of these (an 18amp) had indeed blown, changed it and Hey Presto, we're back in business so Brianp38dse, you were right, thank you. Pity LR don't put 'immobiliser' anywhere in their descriptions.

Get yourself a bloody marker pen quick before you forget

Post-It note firmly in place in the handbook lol