Excerpt // Fixing Land Rover Door Locks 

This is one of the few channels that when I see a new video, I stop what I'm doing and watch it.

I love every second of Croker we get! So 7 mins is 7 mins of joy regardless. We always want more

ahh the Marina flap. Underrated design icon of 1970s Britain.

7 Minutes well spent!

I'm so glad you bought this working reliable drive car which wouldn't be another project. It's worked out great for us viewers. What is the collective noun for us? Croakers?

I had a good old chuckle at the blurred out pins. You need to hurry up and get everything fixed so we can get you out on some South Island tracks. 😁💪🏼

I have just finished major major rust repairs on my discovery, inspired by you and another channel 'soup classic motoring'. Many thanks for the instructive and inspiring videos fooling people like me into thinking they too can repair rusty old cars :)

Didn’t know it was so simple to change these locks to work with an existing key, I have a series 3 with odd locks and might have to try this! Thanks

Looking forward to another installment but this amuse bouche is welcome in the interim

Best way to learn English, hearing a man in the other side of the world working while i'm in mexico

I'm glad you had task that didn't involve the usual roller-coaster of emotions I have come to expect from you! :)

My door requires I throw my body weight into it to unclick the latch as I hold the handle open. It's quite a performance for first time passengers. Basically hockey body-checking my way in. Being Canadian is a def bonus here.

As someone into light locksport, this was actually fascinating, and if it means more frequent videos from you I'd love to see more like it!

As somebody who bought the wrong door lock for his back door, and spent far too many hours learning how to re-pin it out of sheer stubbornness rather than admit that I had failed, this gives me a warm fuzzy feeling.

My favorite channel. Hands down. So much fun

Do they have Landrover anonymous in NZ, the support group for people with a mild perfectionist complex? 👍🏻 Always a pleasure to watch

Good to hear from you again. Looking forward to next time. 👍

Well done, the official term for the "pins" in these locks is "wafers".

I remember a while ago someone said "this is not going to be another project I want a useable car". I'm glad that it turned out not as advertised

You really do take for granted how easy it is to have keyless entry. I spent 2 hours rebuilding a worn through key fob with JBWeld, so it would hang on my keyring, and I didn't have to use keys for getting in. Totally worth it.

Thank god this hasn’t turned into a project yet.

“…previous owners are weird” 😂 Amen, brother! Signed: Owner, and previously previous owner of vehicles

"... previous owners are weird..." Possibly the most important lesson in old car ownership, where the biggest challenge is not rust or wear, but amateur ad hoc repairs.

Thanks for the drop. Just fancying a good watch on YT. Geoffrey Croker never fails to deliver.

Thanks for the upload, I always enjoy your content.

Great. Now I want a discovery just to replace the plastic stuff in the lock with stainless stuff.

Seven minutes and fifty-three seconds? Really Mr. Crocker? Where’s our 60+ minute videos?! Good grief! I guess I have to get out of my pajamas and go to work.

My first visit to NZ. Some really tidy LR disco about strangely. I was expecting some more ‘sheds’ but they must be hidden. Keep up the good work, love it! And NZ.

I love your videos man. They keep me smiling

Had to do the same on my lock barrels. Very pleasing !

Brilliant video

And there was much rejoicing

Well that was easier than most of your repairs! Thanks for sharing 🇨🇦

It is extremely unlikely I will ever have the same affliction as yourself - mainly as your series has made me realise a lot of things about old Discoveries. Nevertheless, I still merrily watch along and was quite content with the 7 min investment, thanks a lot for making the film.

I didn't randomly stumble across this vid mate, I came for the self harm and abuse!

I stumbled across your machine videos, but I stayed for your perfectly accented pronunciation! Make more videos, we don't really care what they are about, just make more!

I always enjoy project updates on this not a project, project car. Thanks for the videos.

Fair play mate. Working with the locks is a pain in the arse! Been there with the broken collars on several trucks

I'm always down to see a crokwr video 👍

Hey, great job on the video.... As an amateur locksmith hobbyist, that was good. I could make a few nitpicks, but overall, you did it right, and that was a good job.... And your video was shot in such a way, that we can actually SEE what you are doing, which is awesome, and not always easy.... Doors that won't work are a real pain... I was on a road trip of about 3600 ish miles, and of course my passenger front door decides to stop working. Broken door handle. So now I can't open the door at all, with either handle, which becomes highly annoying in a hurry. And, you can't pull apart the door while it's stuck shut... That was fun... I'm trying to learn how to wrap... Like vinyl wrap on a car or truck... I swear there's a rule somewhere, that the creator's head or arms or shoulder or hands HAS to be in the way, so that the viewer never ever gets to see what's happening.... So I give you a lot of credit. At least we could see what you are doing. You showed how to do it. A person could watch this video, and do it successfully.... Nice job Sir.

Looking forward to the next time! Thanks :)

Always good to watch, even if it's just a soupçon of Land Rover repair today 👍

Youve probably been tagged 1200 times, but ive seen that the rover Maestro was the test mule for the mk1 disco and it shares common parts - the rear lights are off the Maestro van. Admittedly these will be even rarer than mk1 disco parts, but its another avenue to explore. I also now want to swap a Maestro body onto a disco chassis...

Thank god you are almost done. You led me down a rabbit hole thinking anything was possible. 2 discos, 1 parts disco and 3 engine pulls, endless restorations and I am almost finished with one of them.

Love it! Keep the Disco videos rolling!

I think driver side lock need push rod adjustment

Keep them coming. Always a highlight of the day

Always worth watching, whatever you do. Best wishes.

Very entertaining as usual, many thanks and kind regards.

Hey Geoffrey, Daniel here, formerly douchebagnumero1. Glad to see you're still chipping away at this stuff. You've inspired me to take on a few car projects and even learn a bit of welding so I can fix up the bodywork. I hope you are enjoying your projects as much as I enjoy watching them. Much love from Oregon, USA.

just made my day a lot better

drill a hole in the plastic piece and glue in a steel pin and that plastic piece is better than new

Where is the other older Landy project car?

“Previous owners are weird.” Lol

Always looking forward to new releases from you. So much entertainment, and from my own fairly long experience from working on BL cars, much feel strangly familiar... 🙂

"Let's hope this plastic piece isn't broken, because it's much more expensive".. enter stage left, Sod and his law.

same thing happened to me thanks for the part number and your video!

The p38 “upgraded” to only a single lock on the drivers side. It has power locks and a remote so I guess they figured they didn’t need it. But I don’t have the remote anymore, my door handle on the drivers side broke and then my battery died meaning I couldn’t get in. I had to remove the wheel liner jam an ice pick into a battery cable and then I had enough power to activate the power locks. I fixed the door handle shortly after. No easy task. Land rovers are always fun!

I've moved on to a l322, but I can't stop watching the disco repairs

If you one day in the future find yourself having some paint defects on your newly panted Land Rover, this is the reason. Those broken locks made you use teflon spray, and that teflon spray stuck around until 2029 when you painted it, too bad really, have you considered not painting it 😅

When you got the acetone out to clean it, I thought you were going to nickel plate it!

Smashing 7 minutes! Thanks

Hell yeah! It’s a like even before started watching

Hi 👋🏻 buddy love your videos as you make them with great humour along with technical information 😊🤩🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿

You might want to install a cheap central locking remote. So the lock barrels doet get used that much and wont break a quickly. And its fancy

There are a few channels that I allways Watch as son as I can, and allways look forward to a new edition. This is one of them. But you sir are a glutton for punishment, Land Rovers! Its like a super model, looks fantastic and everybody watts them. But they are expensive to ceep, and not reliable at all. Love the humor, the cars and the content.

Did my apprenticeship in a Land Rover dealer, I remember finding the box full of lock pins for doing this job and wondering at the time what they were for, luckily i never had to do any.

Well done 👍

LPL has entered the chat

well done

Always justified Lord Croker 👍

Good stuff. Well worth a 2nd watch

My plan to nick the LR once you've finished, foiled!

oh god yes new croker update!!

Someone send this man a 3D printer.

Missed you!

He is great and i own his posters

Real good.

All good bro.

moreee, your videos are great

Those locks would at least keep an honest thief out! Lol❤😂

All looks like a job for a 3D printer there!!!

Really think you need another one. Winter project.

...Rodney....

NO ONE wil steal this Land Rover Geoffrey 😀 And bring back your outro song: Autohacker - Inner Stress❤‍🔥 When I listen music and comes this song to my ears. Guess who comes first in my head (no not pink unicorns with rainbow tails) Its YOU and Your Land Rover Project! See you in the next video (I hope SOON!) 😏✌

Making differing door locks of that variety "one key" for the car You want to use: put in the key You want to use in the freshly reclaimed, already pinned barrel You want to use and remove everything that's sticking out with a 120 or 180 grit belt sander. Scuffed hack job of course, but works a treat and usually does keep it from opening with a screwdriver afterwards just fine. Yes, the Croker approach of comparing and changing pins does work well, but as You mentioned: Anybody wanting to enter Your car and being a slightly bit handy does pick these locks open without any evidence visible in 5 seconds anyway.

After some scrote tried (unsuccessfully) to smash the door lock on my Polo with a screwdriver, I had to got through this process to re-pin a new lock barrel. The VW ones are almost identical to these Landrover items. And if it's the same in a 2006 VW Polo, they're probably the same in other VWs, Audis, Skodas etc Some of the pins (wafers?) didn't fit in the new lock, so I had to mix-and-match with what I had, and what was already in the lock, and had to do a bit of light filing on a couple. It all works though, silky smooth with my usual key, but slightly sticky with the spare key I have.

Where’s the series’s 3 restoration gone?

This is.. The Lock Fixing Kiwi..

WHEN ARE WE GOING TO SEE THE SERIES AGAIN?

This channel is absolutely ace. Will there be an update on the little rover anytime soon?

Free 7:52 therapy session!

Yay my favorite kiwi, alongside Peter that is...

Ya a new video!

Good little vid thanks. Had my attention locked in for the full 7 min. What about putting in a central locking kit with a remote?

He's back !??

I remember helping a mate re-pin a lock barrel on his Disco. By which I mean I sat at his kitchen table drinking beer while he worked. After about 15 minutes of careful faffing about, he put down his tools and pronounced the job done. He had to swap the last wafer and the third last wafer. That was all.

Try tilting the camera to match the car instead of… earth, you would look weird standing but at least we would have one odd shot 😂

Congratulations! You've now guaranteed that one single part of your locking mechanism will last forever by having a spare. The rest of it...😉

Very good. The choice of plastic for those two parts seems like a bad omen but by this time I doubt that you can be easily surprised by a Land Rover. I'm fond of them too so it may be a genetic aberration. Or a practical need. Who knows?