FW: door locks - ghost in the machine

[Aaron Burnett <aaron.burnett@attws.com>]

Julian mentions three door lock solenoids in his post, indicating that
the trunk lock automatically engages with the door locks.  I have an '85
XJ-S and my trunk has never automatically locked.

My question:

Does anyone know when this autolock feature was introduced (or is it
possible that it is present for all XJ-S and that my trunk lock simply
is broken)?

Thanks in advance.

Aaron

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>From: 	Juliansean@aol.com[SMTP:Juliansean@aol.com]
>Sent: 	Thursday, February 06, 1997 7:34 AM
>To: 	jag-lovers@sn.no
>Subject: 	door locks - ghost in the machine
>
>The other day my 1991 XJS exhibited signs of independent life.  
>I went to lock the door after exiting (with the key of course) expecting to
>hear the usual rather loud thudding noise of the passenger door and boot-lid
>solenoid closing the locks.
>Instead, all three solenoids went rapidly from lock to unlock for about ten
>seconds, even after I removed the key from the barrel  !!   This wouldn't
>stop until I replaced the key in the lock and forced it to stop oscillating.
>I almost expected it to blink it's lights, start up, and drive away without
>me.
>.....weird.
>Julian mullaney
>

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