Central Locking driving me nuts on MKV Golf

darkskol

Driving a 1.6L MKV Golf. Anybody have any experience of this problem, seems to be an intermittent problem with the central locking.

The central locking seems to keep clicking. Problem arose again last night when I was driving the doors just kept clicking as if the central locking was locking/unlocking. So when I get out and lock with key fob, the central locking just opens the doors again, goes crazy clicking and after a while will just wind down the front two windows. I then takes me ages before this will stop (if it does) so that I can lock the doors. :mad:

Hal1

Did you change the battery in the FOB? some VAG enthusiast may be along shortly. :P

darkskol

Hal1 wrote: »

Did you change the battery in the FOB?

Yes only changed it last month, I was hoping that this was the problem but alas no!

darkskol

Actually just realised that its not locking then unlocking, its just constantly trying to unlock all the time. Would like to get any ideas/ advice off anyone here before I head down to a vw dealer and prob get ripped off

bazz26

darkskol wrote: »

Actually just realised that its not locking then unlocking, its just constantly trying to unlock all the time. Would like to get any ideas/ advice off anyone here before I head down to a vw dealer and prob get ripped off

Have an auto electrician look at it.

CrowdedHouse

Sounds to me like the fob is faulty.

Have you tried the spare fob ?

If you haven't got it,take the battery out of your current fob and see do the problems cease.

GreeBo

Take the battery out of the fob
If it still happens then its the cars electrics, otherwise its "just" the fob.

/edit
Whoops, what ^ he said

Hal1

If the battery is left out of the FOB too long it might need reprogramming.

darkskol

Yeah tried taking out the battery fom the fob and replacing it but unfotunately that did not solve the problem, thanks for suggestions.

....Actually anyone know of any reliable mechanics/auto electricians on the northside of Dublin.

GreeBo

darkskol wrote: »

Yeah tried taking out the battery fom the fob and replacing it but unfotunately that did not solve the problem, thanks for suggestions.

....Actually anyone know of any reliable mechanics/auto electricians on the northside of Dublin.

Rather than replace it, we are saying to leave it out. If you just replace it you still dont know if its the car or the fob.
Do you have any spare keys, with or without a fob?

darkskol

GreeBo wrote: »

Rather than replace it, we are saying to leave it out. If you just replace it you still dont know if its the car or the fob.
Do you have any spare keys, with or without a fob?

Gotcha, don't have any spare keys so I will try that when I get home, cheers!

Darragh29

darkskol wrote: »

Driving a 1.6L MKV Golf. Anybody have any experience of this problem, seems to be an intermittent problem with the central locking.

The central locking seems to keep clicking. Problem arose again last night when I was driving the doors just kept clicking as if the central locking was locking/unlocking. So when I get out and lock with key fob, the central locking just opens the doors again, goes crazy clicking and after a while will just wind down the front two windows. I then takes me ages before this will stop (if it does) so that I can lock the doors. :mad:

Have experience of seeing this problem on a Mk4 Golf. Problem is the CL actuator/solenoid in the drivers door IIRC. Be careful with this problem 'cos the last time I saw this, I had a customer come in with this complaint of the car locking itself and sure enough, we were standing there and the CL kicked in, only problem was that the door was shut and the keys were in the ignition and there was a baby in the childseat!

darkskol

Darragh29 wrote: »

Have experience of seeing this problem on a Mk4 Golf. Problem is the CL actuator/solenoid in the drivers door IIRC

Cheers, any idea if that would be an expensive job to fix?

Darragh29

darkskol wrote: »

Cheers, any idea if that would be an expensive job to fix?

The last time I saw this, the cause was the metal bar that comes from the CL actuator/solenoid, this metal bar is attached to a sensor so that when this dook locks, the bar operates the sensor and sends out a signal to the other actuators on the other doors. I'm a little hazy on this as I was just helping on of the lads who worked for me through this before, I didn't strip down the door, I just had a quick look at the problem for my own reference and I was up to my naads at the time with other work... If my memory is right, the adjustment of this little steel rod was off a bit and operating the sensor when it shouldn't have been operating it. Just run this by someone else on here with VW experience, I'm fairly sure this was a Golf I saw this problem on before...

Type 17

If it was a mkIV Golf, the problem might be this (soldering breaking up inside door latches). This issue only affected early MkIV's (redesign of latch on 2000-on cars), so it's likely that VW would have been careful to avoid this issue in later models.

The fact that your windows open unexpectedly might indicate that the fob is sending a continuous lock/unlock signal when it shouldn't be (by design, the MkV's (electric) windows open/close if you hold down the fob button for two seconds for venting when returning to a hot car, or for fast closing when leaving the car when the windows were open). Of course some other fault (loose connection, etc) could be causing behaviour similar to receiving a fob signal, but I would start by assuming a faulty fob at this stage.

ppeachy

OMG! This is locking/unlocking thing is happening to my car. But not the window thing as I have manual winders. Mine is a VW Mark4 golf. 1.9TDI. I nearly crashed my car today as it was doing it for 30minutes solid and was driving me insane!!!!!!!!!! Someone please please please tell me how to fix this! and i'm a girl so laymans terms would really really help.

Type 17

ppeachy wrote: »

OMG! This is locking/unlocking thing is happening to my car. But not the window thing as I have manual winders. Mine is a VW Mark4 golf. 1.9TDI. I nearly crashed my car today as it was doing it for 30minutes solid and was driving me insane!!!!!!!!!! Someone please please please tell me how to fix this! and i'm a girl so laymans terms would really really help.

If it's a '98/'99 car, then it is likely to be the problem I mentioned in my post above - check the link. If you don't have the skills to do the work yourself, you might get a relative to do it, or pay a tech-minded friend to do it for you, but the key thing is that you are unlikely to need new (expensive) door latches - the ones that you have can be repaired with a soldering iron and some fresh solder.

ppeachy

Thanks Type 17!!!! Yeah it is a 99. Sorry, failed to mention that. :S Forgot to mention aswell that the passenger door stopped opening from the inside there a while ago and only opened from the outside. Got one of my friends to fix this. I'm not sure about this as my bro was using my car at the time but i think that this locking/unlocking thing could have started around the same time as the door stopped opening from the inside.

Type 17

Opening from the inside relies on a cable - the locking/unlocking when you're driving is a different issue and, even if they arose together, it is likely to be coincidental, and both need different solutions to fix them.

alfastud

the same promblem on the sisters golf ,when one of her door locks went faulty they all started to flick up and down,and couldn't be locked cause they would open themselves,so her boy friend bought two front door locks from a scrap yard and took a rough guess and was right the first time and sorted the problem.