Transit Van Side Door Not Locking

A short video showing a 2015 ford transit with a strange central locking fault.

Transit van side door not locking.

When you then try to lock the van by pressing the lock button it relocks the rear doors and beeps the horn to say a door not closed. How to get into a transit when the key will not work. What happens is when it receives the lock signal because one of the locks wont fully lock as above it then kicks the locks open again as the system thinks there is a door not fully closed etc. Ford transit central locking problem.

A great handyman site that specifies the above probable causes and more is the following link. Try opening the rear door driver side and operate the inside handle. The only way is to lock it from the inside using the knob on the door. I have a problem with my lwb ford transit 350 i can open the drivers door with key i can t open the passager door i can only open and lock the sliding manually i can t access the back doors from inside or open it.

Then lock it all up as normal. This happened on a 10 plate transit last year more than once. If not if its the same then there is usually a sticking sometimes faulty lock mechanism on the van. Sometimes when you press the unlock button on the keyfob to unlock the rear of the van only the back doors unlock.

The first thing to check is to make sure that any side door roller hasn t collapsed it is usually the middle roller that goes this results in the door dropping enough so that the contact pins for the locking motor that connect the wiring from the body to the door don t align any more. The cause of the fault is becoming a coming concern on the transit and the tr. Aside from the fuses your drive side power door lock may be failing to work because of a bad door lock relay system or alternatively the locking switch button itself is not malfunctioning and in need of replacement. Im depressed transit van gonna cost me a marriage if i m not careful.

But this prevents it from been opened from outside. How to get into a transit when the key will not work. The side door stays locked.