Central locking and Security system:
Driving the Pagoda as often as I do, I've had it with fidgeting with my keys to lock and unlock the doors.
Almost everything is available in kit form. Installation is not all that complicated and is easily adapted to the Pagoda because, as it turns out, our door looking mechanisms appear to be the same as those used on the sedans. In other words, there is a tab with a hole in it that is used for those cars that have vertical push-down/pop-up buttons to lock the doors. These tabs can be used to hook to the actuators which can be mounted directly below. It is a direct shot, no bending or drilling needed, except for some small screws to mount the actuators. An original MB "rod locking ring" can be used to hold the actuator's rod in the hole in the tab.
Running the wires (5 for each actuator) is painstaking in order to do neatly. 1/2" holes needed to be drilled in each door, and pre-existing holes in each door post had to be enlarged to run the wires into the cabin through rubber accordion loom tubing. From there, the wires hide behind the kick panels and run to a 2" square control box hidden at the front of the driver's kick panel. Refusing to stop there, I hooked the control box to a security system "brain", mounted a small fusebox on the kick panel, and wired in the parking lights, siren, and several sensors.
Final result: When I lock the car with the remote keyfob, the siren chirps once, the parking lights flash once, the doors lock, and the alarm is set. A "dual field" sensor will emit warning chirps when anyone gets close enough to touch the windows, and sets off the alarm and lights if the cabin is entered. A sound sensor is mounted in the trunk near the lock to deter tampering there. A tilt sensor is placed under the parcel shelf to deter jacking, and a backup battery is placed there as well in case the alarm is disabled by heavy duty wire cutters on the battery cable.
Unlocking the car with the remote also turns off the security system, turning the ignition key automatically locks or unlocks the doors. and manually locking one door will automatically lock the other door.
Enough for now.
