can anyone shed any light on a central locking problem that i have on my EL fairmont. on some occasions when i lock the car ,it just keeps locking and unlocking for a length of time up to about 2 minutes. this will happen if i use the keypad or the key lock

Either a door lock is not connecting to its striker properly or one of your Tibbe actuators in one of your doors is stuffed. Just check that your doors are aligned at the right height and not hanging down at an angle and if that does not turn out to be the problem then you may have to pull door interior trims off one at a time and disconnect each door actuator, try the central locking to see if the rest of the doors lock correctly and if they do, then you have found the dodgy actuator which you can just replace.

thanks for your reply i'll start pulling it apart .oh what fun

9 times out of ten it will be the left front door actuator

I have the same problem and its related to heat - I have had an EF for 3 years and it only does it in the hot summer months - in winter - no problems. Today, 1/1/06 with the road temperature of over 40c - the central locking was going demented. greg