The invention relates to a method for operating a motor vehicle locking
system (1) for a closure element (2) of a motor vehicle (3), the motor vehicle locking
system (1) having a motor vehicle lock (4), an
electric drive (5), a control arrangement (6) and a switch arrangement (10), wherein the control arrangement (6) queries the switching state of a main switching element (11) of the switch arrangement (10) on the basis of a
signal level at a
signal input (12) of the control arrangement (6), said
signal input being connected to the switch arrangement (10), wherein in the closed switching state, the main switching element (11) closes a connection of the signal input (12) to a reference potential and, in the open switching state, opens same, wherein the control arrangement (6) checks, in a diagnostic routine, the presence of an
error state relating to the switch arrangement (10) on the basis of the
signal level at the signal input (12). According to the invention, the switch arrangement (10) has a parallel
resistor (16) which is connected to the reference potential in parallel with the main switching element (11) and, during emergency operation, the connection of the parallel
resistor (16) to the reference potential is disconnected by means of an auxiliary switching element (17) of the switch arrangement (10).