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I am currently at exactly the same point on the same door! Did you ever manage to unlock the door, , I have attacked the actuator and I still cannot get it to unlock, my exterior door handle cable has released itself in the process and I am now only able to pull the interior cable,,, I have been posting on another thread that I found similar, there is no where with a way to get this unlocked, complete nightmare

just to add , the lock is right up to the left side and even with more access room it would make no difference to me reaching the lock, its a proper ****e design , as seconded by Skoda today , they tell me that they no longer make them like this and have redesigned the doors

I already drilled out the rivets , I have good hole that I cut out of the panel, my problem is how to make this lock unlock so I can open the door, I have called Skoda main dealer and man there told me they just smash the thing ,, but i been sticking screwdriver in the guts of the locking thing and nothing happens, I looked at a thousand videos on tube about releasing them and the professions seem to have a way of drilling a hole and releasing it,, but I have no clue , I drilled a few holes to get the hole going and have now come to an end with trying,, I am pretty gutted as I normally don't give up but this is seeming futile, what a nightmare this be,, I really want to fix it,, and to top this off my other side rear door is now not working, window or central locking,, and my vcds wont read anything from both rear doors,, I connected the new actuator to test it and nothing! seems no electric coming through now,, no idea how this has happened, I checked all fuses and none blown so its got me in a pickle indeed

Think I have been defeated, I have smashed a part of the side plastic from the actuator but just cannot get anything to do anything with screw driver chisel into the guts of thing , I think I’m lucky to still have the inside cable attached

I miss my mk1 ! It was simple to repair anything with that, this mk2 is totally bad design for broken door actuators!

Well I’m still trying to get the lock unlocked and am kind of stuck now , no idea what I can do to release the lock , another dilema is now the other side door seems to have lost power as I just connected the new lock to the power connection and nothing happened when I pressed the lock unlock , now right side is not working either , mid this because the left side windows etc are disconnected!? It’s got me totally baffeled now , vcds is not getting any life from back doors whatso ever , what a nightmare this be

There is power to the thing as it’s still connected , it’s completley dead, I need to manually unlock it , I saw somewhere that there’s a point you can drill into but that’s not option (I cannot find that info now anyway) but I need to release this with one hand blind as can’t see in there while my hand in there, I’m completely baffeled and it’s no longer enjoyable at all!

I’m ready to smash the thing,

Anyone know how to release the lock with it as it is?

Hey thanks nige, I am past the point of return and after talking to Skoda main dealer on the phone they told me there is no way to save the panel (the metal one ) so I cut a hole in it, I can now reach with my hand the actuator but cannot for the life of me get it to unlock , I have no idea how I am going to get this door to open and the worst of it is the cable from outside handle has now come off so I can only use interior cable to open the door if I can get the thing to unlock here’s my latest, I am totally restricted on room and can only just get my hand at the acuator

This is where I am currently with closed rear door to change the locking actuator , can anyone who knows tell me if the window needs to come out as I have drilled the rivets now and the window cables are behind , I can feel resistance so don’t want to break anything ! Not sure the next part to do this

Would you have any idea that if the locking mech/acuator was broken, would this affect the mirror not moving, when I check with vcds it knows which way the switch is turned , if I turn the switch left and right the vcds can read it , so it seems the switch is getting power but the mirror is not, I am going to drill the rivets today, but would rather have an idea if there is wiring inside the panel which could have gone bad, the door bellows wiring was corroded at the socket but seems ok and after a clean up nothing has changed, trip to get a pop rivet gun and will go from here , I intend to do the back door first now as I have the new actuator so will at least be able to finish that once started, , one more question, does the window have to come out to fit a new actuator door lock ?

The wires around the door all seem fine , there is no power getting to the wing mirror as it just turns the left side when the switch is on the right, also indicator in mirror not working also the locking actuator not getting power , I found the wiring where loom joins door to main body of car was very corroded, I cleaned as best I could and put small gasoline on the connectors , has not rectified the problem , I not sure if there are wires underneath the door panel that need to be drilled out and looked at ?

Hi, so I removed the drivers door panel and now am pretty concerned that I need to drill pop rivits out to get to the next part! Is this where the wiring goes bad as the stuff I can see looks fine! That goes to windows etc

appreciate it , thanks again

Thanks , so you mean the door card can defiantly be removed with the door closed? appreciate advice

Sorry for my confusing post! what I mean is , I turn the mirror switch to the left mirror setting, then it moves the mirror fine left side , so then I turn it to the right side setting and it controls the left mirror,, no life in right side, also I turn to fold the mirrors and it just folds the left mirror, no life in right side, , I suspect it is the corrosion issue , I have a guy looking at it tomorrow as the rear passenger door also locked closed and cannot open it, I am not confident of removing door cards without damaging them! so will let man take a look I have ordered a new lock for rear passenger side door £20 Ebay job, but will wait see if the wiring can be saved drivers side before ordering any part for that, thanks for all advice here guys

Looking like not going to an easy fix this one, I can't see if its going to be possible to remove the door card with door locked shut,, my hand is aching from banging to try and get it to release! bit gutted on this as its such a nice car, and this problem could cost a few quid to much

Hey guys, sorry I posted about a 2009 octy, I had just come to the thread by way of searching the problem, and it is exactly same as the original post here, As for power getting through to the rear door, yes can hear the click, but will not unlock and I guess the child lock is on as cannot open from the inside either, I scanned the car and got the fault 00930 locking module for central locking , rear left (f222) 008 - implausible signal guess the lock is damaged,,,, and a strange thing was when I got the car home I opened the boot to check spare wheel and the wheel space had around a foot of water at the bottom!! , , no idea how it could of become so wet!

I obviously found this thread and i can see the wiring loom needs attention , just wondered if the rear door could also be linked to this problem ?

Hi guys, I brought a 09 plate Octavia yesterday and while driving home I tried the wing mirror drivers side and the control was turning the left side mirror with both sides from the controller ! Also drivers door doesn’t lock/unlock from remote , one question , one of the rear passenger doors being onside left, is locked and will not open from inside or outside, could this be linked to the driver door wiring? If any members around Lowestoft area that know how to fix this I would be willing to pay , I also have vcds if I can help anyone else out with theirs, my time is free

strange thing was they were both working for around a week then suddenly stopped, I thought as the brake lights had also stopped that the problem was linked but obviously not, thanks again

ok all fixed, I checked the rear bulb and it had fallen out of the holder, so put new bulb in and all 3 brake lights now working, the led seems to have a bad connection as I have to tap the light in centre to make it work some times, but the brake lights ok now, as for the front side lights no warning light is coming on dash for these so I am not concerned with them not working, thanks guys