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[powerslinky]

Advice required guys please. for the '53 plate 3.2 elite. Drivers door is going to be changed & I have one coming in the right colour, complete door as it comes off (door card/mirror & lock inc.)

I am also getting 1 key for that door  . . . so . . . .   can i just put the door on as is & will the central locking work off of my original key /  But If I  need/want to ,manually lock /open it ,I will use the key supplied with the door .

Will this work ?            Also I know I have to check that the door speaker is a Bose one 

TIA   Al

[4x4]

As your taking door card off why not change handles over at the same time 

[powerslinky]

As your taking door card off why not change handles over at the same time 

Is not changing the lock barrel a bit of a nightmare?      just looking for an easy way out for the time being 

[TheBoy]

Easy job to swap over the whole exterior handle. Not doing so will bite you in the arse one day when the battery (either car, or fob) dies at the most inconvenient time.

[05omegav6]

As your taking door card off why not change handles over at the same time 

Is not changing the lock barrel a bit of a nightmare?      just looking for an easy way out for the time being 

Door card off, two nuts and unhook the rods

[powerslinky]

As your taking door card off why not change handles over at the same time 

Is not changing the lock barrel a bit of a nightmare?      just looking for an easy way out for the time being 

Door card off, two nuts and unhook the rods :y

Oh in that case . . . I will change it then .   Somewhere or for some reason I had it in my head that it was a right tricky little bugger to do 

[powerslinky]

Easy job to swap over the whole exterior handle. Not doing so will bite you in the arse one day when the battery (either car, or fob) dies at the most inconvenient time.

But I will have the key for that new  door TB . To open manually if needed

 But  I will change it over now that i know it;s fairly simple  job   Thank you

[05omegav6]

I don't doubt it will be on the fiddly side of awkward   

[powerslinky]

I don't doubt it will be on the fiddly side of awkward   

Should be a breeze with my hands  then. . . like No.1 coal shovels  ?

I would still like to know though  . .     if   . .  the new door with it's own lock will open with  all the other 3 doors,with the central locking, with my existing key fob?

[05omegav6]

It will do, but if you try and use the current key in the new barrel, even once, then you'll be changing the lock

[powerslinky]

It will do, but if you try and use the current key in the new barrel, even once, then you'll be changing the lock

Advice taken  Al  cheers 

[TheBoy]

Easy job to swap over the whole exterior handle. Not doing so will bite you in the arse one day when the battery (either car, or fob) dies at the most inconvenient time.

But I will have the key for that new  door TB . To open manually if needed

 But  I will change it over now that i know it;s fairly simple  job   Thank you

So you're really considering carrying 2 keys around

The hardest part, honestly, is removal of doorcard and dampproof membrane.