Does your VW central locking do this?

share_bear

Hi,

There is a feature in VW's where if you lock the car with the central locking button, you don't have to press the unlock button to open the door.

If I press the unlock button, everything works as it should.

If I lock from inside, then open the drivers door by just pulling the handle, then i find that I cannot open the passengers door from the outside no matter what - even if I go back and press the central locking unlock button or cycle the locks. I have to pull the passenger door handle.

Do other VW's do this or is it a fault?

Please try it on your VW: Could it be that this is a normal characteristic, but not being understood causes so many of these "i can't open my door" posts on the web?

colm_mcm

Sounds like a fault.

darragh o meara

share_bear wrote: »

Hi,

There is a feature in VW's where if you lock the car with the central locking button, you don't have to press the unlock button to open the door.

If I press the unlock button, everything works as it should.

If I lock from inside, then open the drivers door by just pulling the handle, then i find that I cannot open the passengers door from the outside no matter what - even if I go back and press the central locking unlock button or cycle the locks. I have to pull the passenger door handle.

Do other VW's do this or is it a fault?

Please try it on your VW: Could it be that this is a normal characteristic, but not being understood causes so many of these "i can't open my door" posts on the web?

VWs suffer from cable issues in the doors where a clip becomes unseated and usually affects the outside handle causing it not to work. Mine currently is suffering from it on the passenger door. Open it and give it a hard closing once or twice is usually enough to sort it out. Mine has unclipped completely and now the door card needs to come off to fix it

Rusky rusky

My wife’s Polo does the same thing while my golf unlocks all the doors when I turn off the engine. Maybe it has smth to do with the automatic locking feature on golfs (once you reach 15kmh). polo doesn’t have this feature

share_bear

Rusky rusky wrote: »

My wife’s Polo does the same thing while my golf unlocks all the doors when I turn off the engine. Maybe it has smth to do with the automatic locking feature on golfs (once you reach 15kmh). polo doesn’t have this feature

My car is a 2011 onwards VW Type 1F8 Eos, but you know I have the autolock turned off as I often collect a passenger with the engine running. So it is interesting that the Polo does it - do you mind if I ask what year the polo is please?

Nekarsulm

On rare random occasions my 03 Passat would centrally lock everything 30 seconds after you took out the key.
Twice locked itself with the key left on the passenger seat.
Nightmare.

Also, there was a square push button on the drivers side B pillar, down at seat squab level. Never found out what that did.

share_bear

Nekarsulm wrote: »

On rare random occasions my 03 Passat would centrally lock everything 30 seconds after you took out the key.
Twice locked itself with the key left on the passenger seat.
Nightmare.

Also, there was a square push button on the drivers side B pillar, down at seat squab level. Never found out what that did.

That button allows you to arm the alarm with the interior motion detectors shut off - say if you were leaving a dog in the car and wanted to lock it.

VW locks from that era were notorious for mechanical failure, but it sounds like a controller issue. Did you ever have body work done on your car - wondering if your car (and mine) were welded electrically causing damage to the electronics. This is why I am wondering about other cars and so interested in the Polo mentioned in other post above. Perhaps the car wouldn't have locked if you had left the interior sensors on?

share_bear

Interestingly - if I sit in front passenger seat, lock via central locking button, get out by pulling passenger door handle, I can open the driver door from outside no bother. :eek:

Nekarsulm

Share Bear, it only happened at rare intervals, so hard to establish a pattern. Luckily both times it locked with keys inside they could be accessed with a long thin piece of metal rod and the "unlock" button pushed. ( after prising top of door frame out an inch with tyre irons)

The alarm sensor button didn't seem to make any difference whichever way you pushed it. No bodywork carried out.

Rusky rusky

share_bear wrote: »

My car is a 2011 onwards VW Type 1F8 Eos, but you know I have the autolock turned off as I often collect a passenger with the engine running. So it is interesting that the Polo does it - do you mind if I ask what year the polo is please?

Typ 6C 2015