Central locking

[Baycott]

I have a 2018 Hymer B 574 DL and, unfortunately, it doesn’t have central locking. It has a ‘lock/unlock’ key fob and the indicators flash when you ‘lock’ it and the interior light comes on when you ‘unlock’ it.
Does anybody know if it is possible/practical to retro fit central locking?
There doesn’t seem to be any wiring inside the door and no ’loom loop’ going across the hinge side

TIA
John.

 

[funflair]

I was reading last week a report of someone fitting it to his MORELO in Germany, it was a German kit and looked very good, will try to find it again.

Martin

 

[Figaro]

A Morelo, and no central locking, disgraceful.
Just imagine having to actually get you keys out and use a lock

 

[Lenny HB]

A Morelo, and no central locking, disgraceful.
Just imagine having to actually get you keys out and use a lock

If you have seen the price of their cental locking keyless entry system you would why it was bought without one.

 

[funflair]

Hi Baycott

Text copied from the German forum, if you go to the web site it looks a good system, C, M Carth is short for Concorde MORELO and Carthago. I think it depends on what locks you have but the guy did a cracking job on his MORELO including feeding the cable through the foam insulation in the locker doors. I read in Google Chrome as you can set it to translate to English.



So I had planned to equip the storage flaps with a central locking system, retrofittable is cheap and usable from RV-Tech for C, M, Carth, and the like to retrofit.



Before I ordered the things, however, I thought about how I would lay the cables inside, or where I would pull them through.

Drilling the underbody was not an alternative for me, I should have left it the same.



So I - as a former electrician - quite the old way with 10mm copper wire, long flexible plastic strips, etc. Tools "threaded" until I was through everywhere and immediately pulled in a pull wire where I later wanted to pull the cables and corrugated pipes. It took about 4-5 hours.

Then I ordered things from RV-Tech and corrugated pipe, unslotted; 10 and 13mm outer diameter and clamps for it at voelkner.

The price all in all about 600 euros for 7 locks.



When the things were there I started installing last week, actually after the pull wires were in there was no problem. Except for the flaps where I didn't want to lay a cable or pipe on it, but pierce through the foam with welding wire and then metal strips at an angle and pull the cable through.

That was easier thought than done. The foam, so the flap insulation is so firm that an aluminum sheet strip did not work but only a pointed stainless steel strip made of 3mm VA sheet and approx. 5mm wide and approx. 60cm long. for cm pressed through with locking pliers, at the back of the sheet a hole through which the thin cables were pulled. The plug was previously cut off, also to bring the whole thing through the corrugated pipes, and later when the cable on the lock was soldered back on. To pull the cable through the thin, unslotted corrugated pipe, I used a cable feed tape.

Last but not least, I connected the "control center" to the garage flap switch by means of a relay because I didn't want to install another switch, so all flaps are always

Open or close the rear garage.

I'm happy now that everything works so well and at a fair price. Everything about 12 hours of work. Here are a few photos.



Greetings Thomas

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[funflair]

A Morelo, and no central locking, disgraceful.
Just imagine having to actually get you keys out and use a lock

Its an option like a lot of things €2,490 if you want it, as standard you do get the keypad door entry with solenoid locking and a locking system on the garage doors so no handles, this can be disabled from inside the van so the doors can't be opened even when the van is open, its only the flaps that are not part of a system.

Martin