Lada - Padlock/padbolt to lock the doors

[SP450andLE]

All of the doors in my Lada can open without a key.
Driver's door - quarterlight is missing the locking bit.
Passenger's door - window slides up and down without the winder.
Boot - key doesn't lock it.

So should I use a padlock-padbolt to lock each door?

Or only the boot, and fix the two windows on the other doors?

Bearing in mind it is only a Lada

[andy3542]

just leave it unlocked if anyone goes to steal it theyll get bored of trying to get it started and go steal a wrx, much like the landrover.

[sibainmud]

Who wants a Lada anyway Oh, You do!
Is this for the farm or "The Haven"?
Cause anything not bolted down in Beach Haven WILL get nicked

[meatc]

Fix it.

You will run into WOF issues if you put gate bolts on it, and besides, you could prob fix it cheaper than putting locks on it.

[SP450andLE]

Who wants a Lada anyway Oh, You do!
Is this for the farm or "The Haven"?
Cause anything not bolted down in Beach Haven WILL get nicked

It's gunno be both in The haven and K-Town. So the same applies for both places

Oh, and I just realised it's simple to fix the quarterlight

[Swamped]

Weld em shut and go all dukes of hazzard.

If all the doors locks are rooted why not just get a full set and another key? Pretty easy really.

[niblik]

surely this critical piece of information and opinion gathering could have been left to your thread and not create another post whoring exercise..?

at the end of the day, its an easy choice for an individual to make about there own vehicle.

[chevrolux]

HOLY SHT!!! GUESS WHAT!!!
I heard from a mate that he has a work mate that talked to the dude that owns KFC and he likes Toyotas!!!! LIKE OMG!!!!!!! ooo maybe i should have started a new post for this...

[mylux]

All of the doors in my Lada can open without a key.
Driver's door - quarterlight is missing the locking bit.
Passenger's door - window slides up and down without the winder.
Boot - key doesn't lock it.

So should I use a padlock-padbolt to lock each door?

Or only the boot, and fix the two windows on the other doors?

Bearing in mind it is only a Lada

Fu#k who cares, if they did get into it it wouldn't start anyhow
No focker in their right mind would ever steal one.

[mylux]

HOLY SHT!!! GUESS WHAT!!!
I heard from a mate that he has a work mate that talked to the dude that owns KFC and he likes Toyotas!!!! LIKE OMG!!!!!!! ooo maybe i should have started a new post for this...

Kool. KFC sh!t lets start a thread about that, my favorite is Don Brash burgers served with a hint of burnt tyres.

[ClassicCruiserSpares]

HOLY SHT!!! GUESS WHAT!!!
I heard from a mate that he has a work mate that talked to the dude that owns KFC and he likes Toyotas!!!! LIKE OMG!!!!!!! ooo maybe i should have started a new post for this...

Kool. KFC sh!t lets start a thread about that, my favorite is Don Brash burgers served with a hint of burnt tyres.

Thats great

[Smurf]

Fit the padbolts on the inside of the doors so no one can try to force the padlocks

[Jerry]

Mr Bean rides again



fix them if you can .....

[SP450andLE]

Yeah, I will probably just fix them

And Jerry, you almost made me get out the drill and the padbolts and start attacking my Mini.
Lucky it's dark and wet outside, saved me from spoiling it

[Drurban]

You could put a kill switch in so no one can start it, not to sure about the padlock that would look too Hillbilly would be a same to put that on as the body work is quite good Iam guessing you are doing this to your Black Lada?.

How easy would it be to put in central locking, if it has the bits in the door to do it??

Just an Idea not to sure if that will work or not.

[Nivapulledout]

HOLY SHT!!! GUESS WHAT!!!
I heard from a mate that he has a work mate that talked to the dude that owns KFC and he likes Toyotas!!!! LIKE OMG!!!!!!! ooo maybe i should have started a new post for this...

Kool. KFC sh!t lets start a thread about that, my favorite is Don Brash burgers served with a hint of burnt tyres.

Thats great

you asked for that one bro, it is a bit of a shoot me in the head thread. It is hard for us lada owners to be taken seriously without threads like this giving them fodder.

[Hoodoo]

Neil at Lada UK should be able to supply the relevant items. Failing that, I've also fitted mine with deadbolts. I don't think they're still available, but they're similar to bolts used for windows, operated by a splined key. Mine were for vehicles - the bolt is very angle grinder resistant!!
There used to be a firm called Grumpy's in the UK that supplied quarter light locks for Morris 1000's. Fitted other quarterlights as well.

There's also Andy over in Oz.
Regards,
Hoodoo

[Suza]

My 2 cents worth is fix them a mate had a Landy years ago with padbolts and pad locks and the noise was awful, or was it the Landy?

[SP450andLE]

You could put a kill switch in so no one can start it, not to sure about the padlock that would look too Hillbilly would be a same to put that on as the body work is quite good Iam guessing you are doing this to your Black Lada?.

How easy would it be to put in central locking, if it has the bits in the door to do it??

Just an Idea not to sure if that will work or not.

Yeah, the it's the Black Lada.

Central locking? No.
It's heavy enough without it, and if it did have it, it's just more to go wrong

[GotFlex]

Central locking? No.
It's heavy enough without it

[Sadam_Husain]

you could leave one of those things sitting on the side of the road for a month with the keys in the ignition and a box of piss on the passenger seat and the only thing that would go missing would be the box of piss

[Taz]

you could leave one of those things sitting on the side of the road for a month with the keys in the ignition and a box of piss on the passenger seat and the only thing that would go missing would be the box of piss

Someone would probably even put a nice cover over it so children didn't have to go through the horror of seeing it on the way past.

I reckon you should padlock it like this.



If you tilt your head to the right you can see they even got it perfectly level. Talent.

[odonata]

Hey you lot are so unkind to Ladas!
I was mad enough to own a Lada Samar in the 90's, have to say it is the only car I fondly remember for all the faults and challenges it presented me with and I did not have to go 4wd to create them. No other car I have owned, can I joke or reminisce about, they are just too plain reliable. All my work colleagues were so dissapointed when I sold it because they could no longer tease me.
See, there is a silver lining to every Lada, you just don't realise it until you have owned one!

[SP450andLE]

If you tilt your head to the right you can see they even got it perfectly level. Talent.

Damn that's stylish!

Oh, and Odonata, well said.

[Fakey]

Dont lock it, if someone want to get in theyll just wreck the locks anyway

[taz01]

ya farkin tightass ........nah just leave it as is do what other dorklanders do when they lose the petrol cap stuff a rag in the hole ........and being a lada light the end walk away ive just sent a box of matches your way on the ore courier unless someone closer can help out.....

[chevrolux]

ya farkin tightass ........nah just leave it as is do what other dorklanders do when they lose the petrol cap stuff a rag in the hole ........and being a lada light the end walk away ive just sent a box of matches your way on the ore courier unless someone closer can help out.....

a-fcking-men!!!

edit: had the mean lol at your 'dont want to go central locking cos of the weight' comment

[Nivapulledout]

You could put a kill switch in so no one can start it, not to sure about the padlock that would look too Hillbilly would be a same to put that on as the body work is quite good Iam guessing you are doing this to your Black Lada?.

How easy would it be to put in central locking, if it has the bits in the door to do it??

Just an Idea not to sure if that will work or not.

Yeah, the it's the Black Lada.

Central locking? No.
It's heavy enough without it, and if it did have it, it's just more to go wrong

Giovanii has fitted central locking and it works great. a key and lock set from G motors is cheap enough.

the universal central locking kit weights about 1 kg

[SP450andLE]

Giovanii has fitted central locking and it works great. a key and lock set from G motors is cheap enough.

the universal central locking kit weights about 1 kg

Seriously?

Wow, I must have seen a pretty crap kit considering how light that one is!

[chevrolux]

are you actually serious? arent you doing an auto apprenticeship?

^^ central locking motor

^^manual door lock