hey guy's,

My mum picked up here new octy today, wow what an awesome car.

1.9 TDI GLX

Oh we did look like idiots trying to open the fuel cap earlier, we found the button eventually, who's idea was it to put it there? :eek:

Now the central locking is a bit wierd... let me explain...

It has 2 keys, and a spare 2 keys.

key one wont turn at all in the drivers door, but it will in the boot and passenger door.

But key two for the drivers door is the key for the ignition. (either that or the key's not fully in the lock)

Anyway The button on the key wont do anything, battery prob dead.

The problem,

I locked the doors using the key in the drivers door, holding it anti clockwise they all locked fine.

Then unlocked fine too. (clockwise).

Then tryed to lock it back up after a short drive, and the drivers door locked with the key, but it only locked itself and wouldn't lock the others?

So i went to the passenger door and it locked them all from there. Thats Weird isnt it?

Whats weirder is then my dad tryed the key in the drivers door in unlock possition and it opened the windows too?????

This presumes you have remote locking.

Do you have a manual for the car? If so, first order of business should be to replace the battery in the "dead" key, and try to sychronise it.

It looks like there's a possible convenience or door loom problem here too.

That said, the key opening the windows when you unlock is a configurable option.

is the syncronising bit in the manual?

and the window thing too?

That way maybe I can sort it out, if its not how do you do it ppl?

Synchronising is; the windows aren't as such.

But you can make the windows stay closed without changing the configuration in software. Close them all explicitly using the window switches, then lock the car using the key your dad used when they opened. They should now stay closed when you unlock, unless someone leaves them open!

has every octavia got 4 keys? 2 working and 2 spare.

No; you have a shedload of keys and no mistake there. Do they all have a Skoda badge on them? If not, concentrate on the ones that do, and keep the others as "spare door keys"

Whats weirder is then my dad tryed the key in the drivers door in unlock possition and it opened the windows too?????

That's what VAG didn't want anyone to know.

I have heard this before.

You stick a screwdriver in the lock and it does the same = it pulls the windows down.

A really bad design fault only on VAG cars

wo now hold on thats a huge design flaw!

And yep they are all skoda key's, It sounds like its had new locks put in? but not all of them.

ok so we were going out earlier I open the back window, and guess what it stops working! fully down too.

Sounded like the glass fell off the runner, anyway the garage fixed it for now, the catch at the bottom had gone. (of course I got the blame for breaking the window)