Just a friendly reminder to all about the locking / alarm on Fabia's (and probably others).

My vRS got broke in to last night. Work laptop (in an ordinary looking rucksack, not a laptop bag) and iPod stolen, drivers window smashed. The alarm didn't go off.... as I have got in to the habit of 'double locking' it, thinking that deadlocked it... but actually it appears it turns off the alarm motion sensor thing.

I'm not sure what else triggers the alarm.... I'd have thought there was some other sensors, but it didn't go off.

Time to get out of the habit of pressing that lock button twice! (errr... and taking stuff out of the car!!).

Too late, But the car double locks automatically on the first press! Two presses disables the double lock and the interior sensors!

It is mentioned in the manual

Nobody takes any notice of car alarms these days anyway, so it probably wouldn't have made any difference :(

^^^ correct...

and leaving any items on show is an invitation...

Are you kidding! I have been pressing twice since I got it

Sorry to hear about that Mark :( and thanks for the heads up.

how many times do you hear a car alarm and ignore it?!!! some chavs round my way hear car alarms and beatbox and rap because they think its a "phat tune" mind you i would rather listen to 3mins of car alarm than 3 mins of radio 1!

I double locked mine when I first got it but after finding out that it disabled the alarm I soon stopped that !

I've got a nice big fat disklok on it now aswell

This is one thread im glad iv read!!

just got my fabia vrs nd been double locking it .. . .im glad iv found out thisway

anyways sorry for ur troubles :(

you get any luck in findin the b****tards that done it??

ive got security tints on mine now just search on youtube if you want to know what it does

Skoda dealer told me to hit button twice to lock vehicle for added security. hmmm!!!

The Briskoda site members say once, as this site is more reliable only hit button once now, when locking car up.

Edited 16 June, 201016 yr by giandougl

ive got security tints on mine now just search on youtube if you want to know what it does

Will these lower insurance or increase it..? lol

as far as i know (well with mine at least) when i told them it did nothing to the insureance

as far as i know (well with mine at least) when i told them it did nothing to the insureance

how much is it? and where do you buy it from?! looks like a really good idea (security wise)

cost me £200 for all windows froma place near merry hill by me ( cant remember the name) however if you google window tinting and your area many who do it have websites

and yh security wise its almost imposible to break into