The hatch wont open on my 58 plate octy vrs,it wont open with the key fob or the pad on the rear hatch,it worked fine on friday! im going to check fuses when i get home,will this be covered on my warranty? car has 1 year left on man warranty & only had car 2 months so im expecting it to be! if not i will be fixing it myself. Has anybody else had a failure like this on their octy?

Just had a quick look in the owners book & there isnt even a fuse listed for the hatch.

Im sure you can release it from inside and as its a fault it will be covered.

Not an Octavia. But on my Fabia VRS I had a similar problem...

I sprayed the hinge/locking mechanism with white lithium grease....no problems thus far!!!!!!!!!!!

theres a release button inside the boot i think, some kind of antihijack thing.

If there is a fault in the central locking, you can open the boot lid as follows:

– Fold the seat backrest forwards  page 72.

– Take out the warning triangle*  fig. 29.

– Press the operating lever in the direction of arrow in order to unlock the boot lid.

The operating lever is located under the panel .

– Open the boot lid from the outside.

Thanks people,i will have a quick look on tues,if no joy i will get it to garage & fixed under warranty.

The hatch wont open on my 58 plate octy vrs,it wont open with the key fob or the pad on the rear hatch,it worked fine on friday! im going to check fuses when i get home,will this be covered on my warranty? car has 1 year left on man warranty & only had car 2 months so im expecting it to be! if not i will be fixing it myself. Has anybody else had a failure like this on their octy?

I would not panic immediately.

This happened to me last week. It failed to open when I had all the panels off in order to fit a tow bar - however it had been difficult for weeks.

The lock works thus:

• The central locking uses an electrical motor attached to the body of the car under the boot lip directly under the lock.
  
• This motor throws a push-rod horizontaly, right to left, viewed from the outside.
  
• The push-rod moves a lever attached to the car body next to the lock.
  
• This lever then acts on a catch on the lock attached to the boot lid.
  
• The boot unlocks/opens.
  

The lever is a bent piece of metal with a lump of plastic attached, at a right angle, to the end that acts against the catch on the lock.

On mine the plastic piece had worked itself partly off the lever.

Once it is sufficiently out of position it doesn't reach to touch the catch on the lock. Thus you can hear the central locking work but the boot won't open.

I would suggest you take off the plastic panel on the boot lip arround the lock and check the plastic hasn't worked itself out of position.

If so just push it back!

To take off the plastic panel arround the lock - remove two 10mm plastic nuts next to the spare wheel and then lift straight up.

HTH

There is no noise from the motor in the boot,you can feel the touch pad clicking but thats all. it sounds to me like either a fuse has gone(cant find a fuse for it) or the motor has died.

Well car was booked in for repair to go in on tuesday & guess what...........the blooming thing has fixed itself! it now works perfectly every time! hasnt worked for a week but now ok...going to ring dealer today & cancel bringing it in & if it goes wrong again then its going straight in. The 800 miles ive driven in the last few days must of done something to it!

It's like having a raging toothache that disappears the night before going to the dentist......

Now that you can open it, take it apart & grease it all up...?

Could just need lubing - similar problem afflicted Octy estate owners (including me) a little while ago. Thread here: My link

Could just need lubing - similar problem afflicted Octy estate owners (including me) a little while ago. Thread here: My link

Thanks for that,will give it a lube up! if it fails again its going straight back as it under warranty.

Guess what.........its packed in again! its going in to dealer on tues for warranty repair!

I have just fixed a similar problem on my Mk2 Octavia Estate. I replaced the catch on the hatch back, checked for broken wires where they come through the body into the tail gate, replaced the soft touch switch under the number plate and bought a new actuator which fits onto the tail gate latch. All to no avail, the boot still wouldn't open. What i did then was test the new actuator and that was faulty, I paid £10.50 from a e bay it must be junk, so I bought a genuine one from the Skoda dealers in Ellesmere port £25 complete with the latch, and hurrah the hatch now opens. If any one reading this has similar issues these are the four main things to check.

My wife came home from doing the shopping and stated the "boot won't open". Having looked on this forum for possible clues: fuses, loose wiring, actuator issues ; I did the following:

1. checked the fuses - didn't really need to as the central locking worked, it was just the boot but I thought I should check just in case.
2. Take the actuator off the boot and try with a separate 12V supply - that was working. Reassemble.
3. Stick a screwdriver shaft in the boot lock mechanism when the boot is open so the car thinks the boot is closed. You can then test the boot open mechanism. The actuator moved "a bit" but not enough to open the the boot. Weird.
4. Take the actuator off the boot again and notice that the swing arm the mechanism moves moved freely push from the non-actuator side but was rather stiff from where the actuator would push. Apply WD40 to the actuator and plenty of grease to the arm pivot. Success! 

It seems that over time the swing arm pivot had worn, enough that the actuator didn't have enough force to push the arm. Rather please it cost me nothing but time and some grease.