Door Poppers

[Andy]

As some of you may know from my rebuild thread, I have smoothed my door handles off and modified the stock solenoids to now pop the doors instead of unlocking them.

 

 

I was wondering if anyone knows how TVR get round the problem of getting the doors to open even if the battery is dead?? I am assuming there is some kind of mechanical entry as well? I don't need to use this yet but the way I have it at the moment is a bit long winded if the battery goes so am looking for a better more efficient solution.

 

Any ideas??

[srobrien]

looks smart Dunno how you would solve the battery issue, guess you would just have to hide a mechanical release on the exterior somewhere.

 

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[Stew]

Best bet is to try pistonheads forums. Loads of TVR owners there.

[Woody]

Just had a quick search on google and found this http://www.thecurb.org/Webazine/Pits/Sh ... andles.pdf. He has done this mod on his hotrod and suggest that cars with interior bonnet catch release, may want to run remote battery jumpers on the outside of the car, to enable you to jump the car without the bonnet open.

[Andy]

Cheers for looking mate. That is what I have at the moment, I have run a jump point off the battery to a hidden location. Do you know if this is how the TVR's are wired up??

 

Cheers Stew, will check it out

[kris]

Your going to need a mechanical way of getting in if you want to open your door on an icy morning. Also if your in a crash and somebody needs to get to you...

[Andy]

The car is always garaged so i'm not too worried about that, not sure where they would ice up either I have never understood the whole, being able to open the doors in a crash' thing either.....what happens if your doors are locked from the inside? I hear what you are saying though and do need a secondary way of getting into the car.

[kris]

Just thinking if the whole door ices up just like mine did in the big freeze this year

But if its garaged and used as a secnd car its not so bad.