anybody done one? any step by step guides about as tere are loads of little bits in the kit

 

I'd love to know too as I've got about 4 sets & I want new locks on my van! I've tried searching on the net but got no where.

 

Your ford dealer should do it for you or they will explain what to do

 

pice of cake after you done it a few times it so easy you just need to know how to read a ford key there will be no where on the net that tells you

 

you can find anything on the net if you look hard enough...
when i bought my van i asked for the drivers door lock to be changed as someone had had a go at it in the past, when i called in to see when it would be ready the bloke was fiddling with it, looked far too complicated
btw that was just some random garage, not ford.

 

my local ford garage done it on the side for a tenner on a mechanics lunch break

 

Have you got the old barrel complete?
Iv,e done loads of ford lock sets.Can be quite fiddly.
Post me the bits and i'll rebuild it for free if you want

 

you get the barrel
you pop the circlip off the end
the lock comes out
it won't fall apart as it's got so much grease in it
look at it to see how it goes together
don't loose the locking pin
don't jumble up the numbers of the tabs
don't forget how to put the washers back together again

other than that, it's easy

 

Matt if you'd like my brother to do it for you let me know because I'm in Farnborough on Saturday. My Brother works for Ford in parts and builds locks

Paul

 

Easy when you have been a locksmith and when you know how to read the key aswell

 

I would be well up for that but i am working all fucking day cheers anyway Paul

 

dont have the old barrel

 

What time are you at work until? I'm there by the 6th form college until the evening

 

working till about 5.30pm

gunna have a go in a bit will see how i get on

 

Done it

Just got to get an e clip for the bottom


Cheers for the offer Paul

 

Nice one The clip is available from Ford too

 

yeah yet another trip to the parts dept tomorrow


I would of thought that it should of came in the kit

 

If I went into my local Ford dealer and asked them to rebuild it, they'd probably say that the part was obsolete on their system so would refuse to talk any further nor give any advice

I've got locks c/w new keys too. I'll have sit down one night and have a look......... thanks all.

 

OK, can anyone help me out with this?

I have taken apart my petrol cap lock. The only trouble is, the wafers with the numbers stamped on, don't match the key number.

Numbers on keys.

222413 (Not actually in that order)

And the numbers on the wafers....

3x "D", 1 x "2", and 1x "3", and one blank (that looks like a "D")

I've nearly got it to work. I can twist the petrol cap from the back to lock it, but can't do it from the other side with the key. Doing my nut in.

I thought the "D"s might be "2"s, but then I've got a wafer with "2" stamped on it. "D" can't be "1", as there are 3(4?) of them, and only one occurence of the number "1".

Is there some sort of secret code?

 

thats the wrong key then mate

 

Well, I'm trying to make a petrol cap lock, from a boot lock, and it's from a new set, so it should match up.

 

your key has 3 different numbers on it
the lock has 4 different numbers in it
i would hazzard a guess at the d being a zero?

 

i have done it by goin the car breakers yard and pulled a few random locks out of passenger doors that havn't had much wear and stripped them and then made sure i have pulled the numbers out carefully of the one that needs rebuilding and boshed it all back together, its tricky until you do it a few times infact i have done it and then a few years later struggled until i remembered how to do it