My wife has a V reg 5 door Yaris with central locking. The back door (Hatch) on occassions refuses to open with the other four doors, but will open with the key. The same fuse covers all doors, so if the other doors work, then it cannot be the fuse (can it?). It has happened on two other occassions and the local Toyota dealer has fixed each time charging £75.00 labour, but no parts. Am I being ripped off? Has anyone else come across this problem?
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No, it won't be the fuse. Sounds more likely a poor connection somewhere in the feed to the locking unit.
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Thanks - I will check connections.
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Not sure if same applies to the Yaris, but on Vauxhall's depending on which position you leave the lock in when you remove the key will depend on whether or not the hatch can be opened with the c/l. ie, if you leave the keylock in the vertical position, the hatch will remain locked; but if you leave it in the horizontal position then it will lock / unlock with the c/l.
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Thanks for info. The Yaris handbook has a passage which states 'if the master key has been used then the lock will only respond to 'unlocking' if the master key is again used. I have tried all combinations of keys, but with the same results - locks/unlocks with key, but not with central locking. Cheers.
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Our three-door had a similar problem. It made all the right electrical solenoid-type noises but the tailgate didn't unlock. I took the trim panel off the rear tailgate and had a look at the mechanism inside. As far as I remember, there was a plastic 'loop' which should have connected two parts of the lock - presumably the solenoid to the lock itself - and this had become disconnected. It must have taken no more than 10 minutes to reconnect, all told, and it hasn't done it since.
If this is what has been wrong with your car, and the garage has charged you £75 to fix it, then yes, you have being ripped off!
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Spot-on advice - had same problem and fixed it following your advice. Like you say - 10 minutes.
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Glad it helped. My Yaris has done it again since - seems that the loop just bounces off the connecting peg in some circumstances. If it happens again I'm going to come up with some sort of mod to prevent a recurrence.
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Our 5 door has been fine since we bought it new in 1999 - will bear this in mind !
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