Weird locking problem on car

anto2009

can anyone give advice please

when the red light is flashing all doors are locked when i press the lock button again and when the red light is not flashing the drivers door is open and the rest is locked https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=29GProjznWc

TherapyBoy

Some of the VAG cars have a setting you can choose where when you press the button to unlock the doors once it only unlocks the drivers door, you press it twice to unlock all doors (or change the setting in the car, I think it's under 'convenience' if you have the multi-function computer on your dash)
Is this the problem you are having?

anto2009

thanks for the reply, it is a 2006 Seat Cordoba if i press unlock button once drivers door opens, twice all doors open, when i press lock button doors lock red light flashes, if i press lock button again drivers door opens but the rest are locked,

colm_mcm

Does the car have deadlocking?

anto2009

colm_mcm wrote: »

Does the car have deadlocking?

Hi colm it does indeed

colm_mcm

I would imagine that this fault is related to the deadlocks.

anto2009

colm_mcm wrote: »

I would imagine that this fault is related to the deadlocks.

how would i check that?

Vic_08

anto2009 wrote: »

how would i check that?

Bring it to a mechanic.

Sit in the car and try it, if on the second press the passenger doors are deadlocked but the drivers door is unlocked it is likely that something has broken or is jammed in the deadlock mechanism on the door and when it can't engage it forces or defaults to unlocked.

Unless you know what you are doing or are good with mechanics and in possession of a diagram of the locking mechanism it is unlikely you will be able to diagnose or sort this yourself.

Alternatively if you don't want to spend money on it and are not bothered about not having the deadlocking work just leave it and remember not to press the button twice.

You may also be able to disable the deadlocking function so you don't accidentally leave the driver door unlocked, check the manual.

ironclaw

For what it's worth, I know two Audi's that do this. So unless I'm missing something, your's seems perfectly ok.

Sequence is:

Car fully locked -> One Unlock Press -> Driver's Door Open Only -> Twice (Rapidly) Unlock Press -> All Doors Open

or

Car fully locked -> Twice (Rapidly) Unlock Press -> All Doors Open

The red light is just the immobiliser indicator.

TherapyBoy

The problem he's having is that when the car is locked & he presses the lock button a second time the drivers door unlocks.

Alun

TherapyBoy wrote: »

The problem he's having is that when the car is locked & he presses the lock button a second time the drivers door unlocks.

Yes, that does seem a bit weird. I sometimes forget if I've locked the car and just hit the lock button again to make sure so it'd be a bit worrying if it actually ended up actually unlocking it!

On the other hand, most cars have a function whereby if you unlock the car but don't activate any of the door or boot handles within a pre-set time, say 20 seconds, they automatically lock again, so you should be safe.

anto2009

Vic_08 wrote: »

Bring it to a mechanic.

Sit in the car and try it, if on the second press the passenger doors are deadlocked but the drivers door is unlocked it is likely that something has broken or is jammed in the deadlock mechanism on the door and when it can't engage it forces or defaults to unlocked.

Unless you know what you are doing or are good with mechanics and in possession of a diagram of the locking mechanism it is unlikely you will be able to diagnose or sort this yourself.

Alternatively if you don't want to spend money on it and are not bothered about not having the deadlocking work just leave it and remember not to press the button twice.

You may also be able to disable the deadlocking function so you don't accidentally leave the driver door unlocked, check the manual.

Thanks for the reply. When I sit in the car and press the button to put deadlocking on drivers door doesn't open but rear Passagner door does 😕