Central locking

[steve18]

Hi all

I have a 2013 xf 2.2 diesel sport that i purchased 4.5 years ago and have been very happy with.

I booked it into my local main dealer for a timing belt replacement and on getting my car back the central locking did not work.

Nothing works, the key the internal buttons both key fobs. the door locks are completely dead. The main dealer advised me that it wasn't there fault as they did not work on that part of the car but agreed to look at the problem? After 4 hours they advised they cant  find the fault and the final cost for there time at £162.00 per hour could be thousands. Obviously i called a halt to the work at that point for which i had to pay over £200.00 for their time. I have had 2 auto electrical companies look at the car since and they are unable to find any cure to the problem although one had come across something similar thing, caused by a software update done by the dealer.

So i have a car i cant lock and don't fancy giving the local dealer a blank cheque.  Any advice would be appreciated.