Door Locks; Interior/Exterior Locking; To Unlock; Bonnet Release - Triumph TR4A Owner's Handbook Manual

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L O C K S A N D K E Y S
Door Ircks
Either door may be locked from inside or outsidc irrespective
of which door was last used as an exit, The mechanism auto-
matically prevents the inside handle being set in the locked
position whilst the door is open. This eliminates the possibility
of being locked out of the car in the event of the key being
inadvertently left inside.
Interior Locking
To lock the door it must be closed fust. Only then will the
mechanism pemit the inside handle to be moved forwards. The
handle will automatically retum to the normal position as soon
as it is released.
IMPORTANT.
Do not attempt to force the handle into the
locked position whilst the door is. open.
Exterior Locking
When leaving the car, move the door handle forward and
leave the vehicle by the other door, which may then be locked by
using the key as follows :-
Inse the key in the lock and turn it approximately a quarter
tum towards the shut-face. The key will automatically retum
to rhe horizontal position from wheie it may be wirhdriwn,
when the dools are locked, pressurg on the outside push
buttons, which may be fully depressed, cannot force or damage
the lock,
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To UDlock
Re-enter from either door by inserting the key in the lo(
and tuming it approximately a quarter tum away from tl
shut-face. The key will again automatically return to the hor
zontal position to enable it to be removed.
Lubrication
It will be beneficial, particularly during freezing weather, l
fuifoduce a few droDs of thin machine oil into the latch slot ar
the lock key slots ai intervats of not more than once a mont
IMPORTANT. Urder no circumstances should grease I
applied to the lock cylinders or keys.
Bomet Release
To open the bonnet pull
the contuol situated below
the right-hand side of tlle
facia. The bonnet will rise
sufficiendy to enable the
fingers to be inseded under
the rear edge to raise it to a
near vertical position, where
it will be supported by a
stay. Disengage the stay
from its recess before clos-
ing the bonnet.
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