By Bill Bettridge (Billb) on Monday, August 06, 2001 - 03:36 am: Edit

Alright - this is kind a lame tech post, but interesting all the same.

I was rooting around in the passenger footwell while running a new CB antenna cable and came across the control unit for the remote locks. I've never had any problems with mine, but noticed the "antenna" was a piece of 18 ga wire only about 2" long. I extended it with a 4 ft piece of similar wire and ran it up the "A" pillar and back along the headliner. Result is locks/unlocks from about 50-60 feet (with 4 year old batteries in the remote)

Bill

By ben gott on Monday, August 06, 2001 - 05:35 am: Edit

thanks! im going to give that a try in mine..

ben

By David on Monday, August 06, 2001 - 07:12 am: Edit

Is this on a D1 or DII?

By Bill Bettridge (Billb) on Monday, August 06, 2001 - 08:25 am: Edit

Sorry - D1

By gp (Garrett) on Monday, August 06, 2001 - 08:30 am: Edit

nice. i know...i usually have to be within arms length to get mine to work with a new battery. i was doing the same thing while installing my cb antenna too, but never saw that wire. better take another look.

thanks.

By jason mack on Monday, August 06, 2001 - 04:23 pm: Edit

I did it today. Under the black panel on the passenger side. Take out the fir tree fasteners and remove the panel. The wire is right there. Red in color and held in place with a white plastic doo dad
Here is a pic (hopefully)...

By Bill Bettridge (Billb) on Tuesday, August 07, 2001 - 02:36 am: Edit

That's the one - only my wire was white and of smaller gauge (and only about 1 1/2" to 2" long)

By Tommy Dougherty on Thursday, August 09, 2001 - 03:41 am: Edit

I've got a 97 Disco 1 and I can't find it.

What year is your disco??

-Tommy