Hi all, noticed my central locking is playing up today! Basically when I press lock button once, all locks fine. When I press twice within 2 secs it deactivates safe mode as it should. When I press lock button a 3rd time the interior light comes on and only passenger door unlocks, should this happen??? If I press lock again it locks again but interior light stays on but door relocks, what's going on??? Also I've noticed that when I now press unlock once it unlocks drivers and passenger door and boot stays locked when it should only unlock drivers door??? When pressed again it unlocks boot as it should. Anyone else had this and could it be as simple as flat battery in key fob?? Please help, all help much appreciated. Cheers everyone.
Central locking issues! Please help!
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i managed to lock the keys in ours the other day. put the keys in the ignition, shut the door (with bonnet up) then the doors auto locked..fortunatley i was at home so got the spare key out. also the immboliser/alarm arms after a minute or two regardless of the keys in the igntion/doors open etc wihich is a real pain in tha ass as soon as you get in it alarms, unless you turn the ignition on.. all this never used to happen and im curoius to know if somebodies been playing with vag settings during its services?????
unless some1 comes up with a better answer, ie a dodgey sensor/chip or something and altho unlikley its the only answer i can think of. - i s'psose i/we ought to change the battery in the key fob to rule it out first tho.. and thinking about it i dont think i ever have changed the battery since new.. so maybe it is that...
Ok now I'm confused!! Just been out to my car to check its locked and had a play with locking and its back to normal????? 1 press on lock locks it, 2 presses on lock and it locks and disables deadening, 3 presses on lock and it stays locked! Just as it should. Tried unlocking and 1 press unlocks drivers door only, 2 presses unlocks all doors and boot! How can this be back just like that???? I did wash my car before it started playing up? Any ideas anyone??
Thats a easy one,your door micro switch has probably gone so the car doesn't realise your drivers door has been opened.
see if your interior light comes on when you open the door or try leaving your headlights on and open the drivers door,a lights on warning alarm should sound, if it doesn't its the drivers door micro switch which is a common fault.
As bald eagle mentioned, the micro-switch is a common fault but on older models the solder joints within the same module are known to fail. Read this:http://forums.vwvortex.com/showthread.php?1542461-MKIV-door-locks-explained-why-you-re-having-problems!!!-(.
The faults would have been evident from the minute you picked your car up from service, not a month later, don't be too fixed on trying to blame them.
The faults would have been evident from the minute you picked your car up from service, not a month later, don't be too fixed on trying to blame them.
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As far as i know its something to do with the ECU and conveniance module (what that is... i have no idea!) but i started a thread on this a couple days back aswell. gonna get a mate on it this week so il keep u updated if we manage to solve the mystery behind the phantom door locks!
so it is, thankswhere abouts is the switch? cant see anything obvious externally,
read this thread below about how to fix it,not that easy though,mines been like it for 4 years i and i have just learnt to live with it.
http://www.seatcupra.net/forums/showthread.php?t=285371
.. ill add it to the listSimilar threads
