chasg wrote:
l installed central locking in my mini about 2 years ago without any problems. True you cannot use a key to manually unlock the doors. But if you use two master actuators the chances of both breaking is highly remote. You can also hot wire an emergancy power line directly to the battery and hide this switch in the boot or the engine bay. This will atleast enable you to unlock the doors in an emergency.
Cheers chasg
...or if you have a van or traveller, in an emergency you can enter through the rear doors.
