P38A Door Crunching Sound

Hi all,

I'm still new to the P38 and still learning, today I learnt about "Lazy locking" which I've had on other cars and its been handy feature so enabled it on the nanocom and gave it a try:

2 presses of the lock button on the remote and....

It locks without issue (or awful noise) on the first press.

Second press it pauses slightly and then god awful crunching noise, that sounds like plastic gears mashing into each other.

The windows stayed down too.

Anyone come across this?

Thanks in advance.

Its a: 2001 4.6 Petrol Thor - Vouge.

Sounds like your window regulator is fecked.

tomcat59alan said:

Sounds like your window regulator is fecked.

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Does sound something like that, but the windows work find when used normally.

Superlock gears in the door lock possibly, I personally have disabled the superlock in my locks,more trouble than their worth.IMO

tomcat59alan said:

Superlock gears in the door lock possibly, I personally have disabled the superlock in my locks,more trouble than their worth.IMO

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It does sound like it's coming from the lock area. I've heard of superlock but don't know much about it, time for some reading. How do you disable it?

I think on the nanocom

pete12345 said:

I think on the nanocom

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Ace thanks, i'll plug it in again. After reading the horrors of superlock i'm keen to stop it.

Never ever use super lock its a nightmare if something fails and you need to get a door open

+1 Do not use superlock - ever

pete12345 said:

I think on the nanocom

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Ihad the lock off so i opened it up removed the small superlock motor and superglued the plastic pawl that blocks the mechanism.

I think you press and hold the lock button, for lazy locking but, it's nearly 5 years since I had a P38,
I do know pressing twice activates superlock, don't do it.

Lazy locking is used to close the windows and sunroof with the key. It is nothing to do with super locking (don’t ever super lock the thing!!!)

Depending on how you have it set up in the BeCM you either press and hold the lock button. The doors will lock, then about 2 seconds later the windows will close and finally the sun roof. You need to keep your finger on the lock button the whole time.

An alternative is to insert the key into the door lock and turn to lock and hold it there. It will do the same as above.

As stated many times don't super lock will cause a right head ache when, not if it goes wrong

tomcat59alan said:

Superlock gears in the door lock possibly, I personally have disabled the superlock in my locks,more trouble than their worth.IMO

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+1.

Never use superlock. Unnecessary and completely disengages the lock mechanism so if anything ever goes wrong the only way in is if you have an appetite for destruction.

Thanks all, as well advised I'm going to remove the super lock.