Abstract: A functional component of a motor vehicle lock arrangement, the functional component has a drive arrangement with a motor and an adjustment element coupled to the drive arrangement. The adjustment element can be deflected out of a predetermined engaged position in a deflecting movement, and the deflected adjustment element can be reset into the engaged position in a resetting movement. The deflecting movement can be produced by means of the drive arrangement and the drive motor operates in the motor mode, and the resetting movement is spring-driven and the drive motor operates in the generator mode. The functional component may include a monitoring unit which determines the position of the adjustment element reached in the resetting movement from the motor voltage of the drive motor in accordance with a monitoring rule.