First of all thank you to OffroadFrance for helping with my superlock problem back in 2020 -- worked like a charm with a larger battery charger.

Now, I'm at it again, except this time the battery is fully charged. I know it is because I've got the battery charger hooked up at the starter wire terminal and showing 100% charge. The red alarm indicator light on the dashboard flashes continuously (slow pulse), the truck is super-locked (i.e. the key turns freely without engaging the lock), and the key fob doesn't unlock the doors. I replaced the key fob battery, so I know that is not the problem. Any advice?

 

When you say the key turns freely without engaging the lock, do you mean you can turn the key in the lock 360°? If so, that doesn't indicate superlock. It indicates the door lock pin in broken.

A few threads here, including one fairly recently, recommend prying open the top of the door frame and using some sort of long stick or pole the press the rocker switch on the dash. They used some sort of inflatable air bladder to pry open the door frame but I'd imagine other methods would also work.

 

Sorry - should have been more clear. The key turns 90 degrees to left and right, not 360. So, pretty sure it's super locked. Thanks for the suggestions -- if I can get to the dash button somehow, will it work under super lock?

 

If it is truly in superlock, the dash button won't work. The primary function of superlock is to disable the interior door handles and the dashboard door lock switch.

 

Yep makes it a vault with glass windows pretty much. LR's idea was anything larger than the door itself couldn't be stolen if the doors couldn't open. I personally have always disabled the Superlock feature along with the auto lock when driving feature. Saves the life of your actuators and you NEVER have a door fail to unlock.

I will admit back in the early 2000's I had a date which I met at the restaurant (both had our own vehicles). She got totally wasted and turned into a very angry drunk. She refused to have me take her home. I kept trying to get the keys to her car, but she wasn't having it. I finally got her to sit down in my D2, I was trying to call her friend and she kept trying to get out. I finally had enough and Superlocked her butt in there!!! She banged on the glass and finally passed out. I then drove her home, left a note, her house keys, and her friend finally showed up to make sure she was ok. I then took a VERY nasty taxi back to her car 80.00 ride for like maybe 10 miles at 3AM..... I got her car which was now all by itself in the parking lot. Got back to her house about 3:45AM, got back into my LR, and finally got home about 5AM. Funny thing was she didn't remember a thing after walking out of the restaurant lol. Superlock did come in handy that time lol, but besides that it's just another gizmo that will eventually fail.

 

LOL... Wonder if LR engineers envisioned this as one of the intended uses of super lock...

So, sounds like at this point I have 2 options:
A) figure out how to pop the hood, then disconnect the battery, wait a while, reconnect and hope that I am able to disable the alarm with the key fob
B) break a window, get in, and start the truck with the key, hoping the alarm deactivates

Any thoughts or advice on the above?

 

Diagnose, diagnose, diagnose. That's my mantra. I do my best to follow that mantra, but recently I didn't do it well enough and it cost me time and headaches.

Let's step back. What leads you to conclude the truck is superlocked? If superlock is enabled in the BCU, the most common setup for an NAS truck to activate superlock is to press the keyless handset lock button twice quickly or the key must be turned twice quickly in the door lock. Is one of those sequences how you typically lock the truck? Or more importantly, how you locked it this time?

The fact that the keyless handset is not working is not an indication that the truck is superlocked.

 

I hear you as to the need to diagnose, but can't figure out another reason for the symptoms, which are:

a) battery is showing 100% charge
b) the red alarm indicator light on the dashboard flashes continuously 1x per minute
c) the key turns 90 degrees to the left and right (not 360 degrees) without engaging the lock
d) the key fob, with new battery, doesn't open the truck

As to the events leading up to this, I had the truck hooked up to the battery charger with the hood open, and locked (standard, one click of the key fob, with doors locking + alarm engaged). The truck gave me one blast of the horn when I locked it, since the hood was open, but nothing out of the ordinary otherwise. Once the battery got to 100% charge, I closed the hood without deactivating the alarm, or unlocking the doors first.

 

So normal lock
So broken lock pin
Does not sound like it is superlocked. You might be able to get a long coat hanger with a loop in the end over the door handle, pull to open. Or a long rod to push the lock button. I have a front and rear door apart at the moment, could provide photos if you need them. Years ago I bought a slim jim set, somewhere. Of course you can always call a locksmith.

 

If the lock pin was broken wouldn't the lock tumbler simply rotate freely 360 degrees?