Drove car up steep incline, parked up, left in gear in case handbrake slipped, got out, opened boot to get my hill walking stuff on during which time I heard a noise but didn't know what it was. After putting my boots on I looked down side of car and noticed all windows were down and they were all up before! Don't understand :S ?!

Drove car up steep incline, parked up, left in gear in case handbrake slipped, got out, opened boot to get my hill walking stuff on during which time I heard a noise but didn't know what it was. After putting my boots on I looked down side of car and noticed all windows were down and they were all up before! Don't understand :S ?!

If you hold down the open button on key fob it lowers all windows.

They have a total open/closure feature.

Were the keys in your pocket or somewhere that they could have been pressed? Keeping the unlock button pressed will cause all the windows to open as well as unlock the car. Likewise keeping the lock button pressed will close all the windows and lock the car.

HTH

The keys were in my trouser pocket and I was bent over at the time tying my walking boot laces up, so yeah I guess that would make sense of what happened! I didn't know about that feature, many thanks.

This happened to me yesterday. I parked my car in a high crime area, when I went back about an hour later I saw all the windows were wide open. My coats, etc etc all inside.

I was very worried.

They could have gone. It could have rained my car could have been vandalised ... or stolen.

Anyone leaving their dog in the car could come back to find it gone.

Did some idiot think this would be a good design feature?

So heres a little questionnaire.

1 can you think of ANY valid reason why you would use this feature?

2 who else has found this happen without their expecting it?

3 in view of this what do you think of the "security" feature of having to unlock the car 5 or 6 times to open the boot or let passengers into the car?

(OK I know its press - presspress but how many can make this work first time?)

Happened to mine in the middle of the night, was woken up by the alarm.

Problem is I just glanced out of the window saw there was no one around so reset the alarm, didn't spot the open windows. Went out next morning to find the interior soaked through as it had been persisting it down in the night so got a wet bum on the way to work.

The thing that really annoyed me was that it somehow over rides the auto rain closing, what a stupid idea, no really I wanted the inside of my car to get a bath!

It is useful on a hot day( whats that) to open them all to let the heat out, you can disable the feature and also have all the doors open with one push with vag-com . My daughter home from uni 2 weeks ago went into my car to get a cd from the front loader, and inadvertently opened the windows slightly , I cycle to work, the door bins were quarter full and the seat pockets too as it was like that for over a week . Seats had to be taken out even the rear lights as when it evaporated( elec heater on for 8 hours )

It's a stupid feature imho. I've done it (somehow) about 3 times in 5 years. Car has been out all night with windows half down. Luckily I'm in a pretty safe area and nothing happened.

It is useful on a hot day( whats that) to open them all to let the heat out,

+1

I use this regularly. I can drop all the windows of the car from my office (i can see the car in our secure car park from my window) so the car is cool(er) by the time I've walked out to it at the end of the working day.

On my current car, if you hold unlock the windows all open however if a door isn't opened within 2 minutes the car re-locks itself and the windows close. Shame Skoda didn't design theirs like that.

This happened to me yesterday. I parked my car in a high crime area, when I went back about an hour later I saw all the windows were wide open. My coats, etc etc all inside.

I was very worried.

They could have gone. It could have rained my car could have been vandalised ... or stolen.

Anyone leaving their dog in the car could come back to find it gone.

Did some idiot think this would be a good design feature?

So heres a little questionnaire.

1 can you think of ANY valid reason why you would use this feature?

2 who else has found this happen without their expecting it?

3 in view of this what do you think of the "security" feature of having to unlock the car 5 or 6 times to open the boot or let passengers into the car?

(OK I know its press - presspress but how many can make this work first time?)

I use this all the time if it's been hot. Just as I get to the car I open all the windows and it takes the edge off the heat in the car! All the cars I've had have this feature but on my Skoda if you let go of the button the windows stop and they don't fully open.

Hmmm, I thought this was supposed to happen but can only seem to get it to close automatically, not open. Perhaps i've got something set in Maxidot or summat.

If you have maxidot you can disable the feature if you so desire or change the way it behaves (single, window, all windows, open or close only). The feature has been present on virtually every VW group car since at least 2001.

I find it very useful on my Audi, especially when I was on holiday as I could open the windows as I approached the car to let the extremely hot air escape the interior before I got in.

I find it useful and use it

How hard is it to open the windows when you arrive? Why not make the feature even better so it opens all the doors and tailgate - that would really cool it down!

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I use this regularly. I can drop all the windows of the car from my office (i can see the car in our secure car park from my window) so the car is cool(er) by the time I've walked out to it at the end of the working day.

and if my car was always in a secure car park and never parked in a high crime area I'd be happy to have this feature. Shame SKODA dont provide a security guard with each car!

My point is this "comfort feature" exposes my belongings to opportunist crime, and there is no safety feature on the remote to prevent it happening by accident. If they want to let you cool the car down it would be easier, much safer, and probably use less energy to run the fan blower for a fixed time (say 5 min) in response to the remote.

My point is this "comfort feature" exposes my belongings to opportunist crime, and there is no safety feature on the remote to prevent it happening by accident. If they want to let you cool the car down it would be easier, much safer, and probably use less energy to run the fan blower for a fixed time (say 5 min) in response to the remote.

The feature doesn't do it, its the carelessness of the user.

The feature doesn't do it, its the carelessness of the user.

Yes and no. I can see the point - if you press the "unlock" by mistake after a few seconds if a door has not been opened the car re-locks. Same logic should have been applied to the windows - ie if you drop them from the key remotely and you've not opened a door after 30 seconds they should close again. Only problem if you did this would be that my car would be all closed up again by the time i'd walked from my office to the car park... suppose you can't have it both ways.

I had this happen on my Mk I VRs but that was due to the sh!7e Scorpion alarm rubbish Skoda was flogging at the time. Went up to London by train, left the car in the station car park. Came back to find my car windows open and soggy seats :(

If you have the flick knife style key, you want a feature in the key that disables the function unless the key is flicked out.

That way if you squash the key in your pocket by mistake, the feature is disabled.

I use it all the time too, but as i have a rain sensor when it rains it closes the windows

I use it all the time too, but as i have a rain sensor when it rains it closes the windows

So do I but when it happened to me was the one time the rain sensor didnt work.

Which models have the rain sensors please?

As for the feature, I like it. It's quite often rather hot so as I walk to the car I press the key and it definitely cools down. Never had the misfortune of pressing it by accident though

I am able to avoid this by checking back on my car to make sure everything is closed and locked before leaving it. Got into this habbit after the central locking failed on my old Mondeo and someone got in and nicked anything that wasn't nailed down.

There's only one way that's 100% fool proof and that's to check for yourself before leaving the car If the windows have opened when you look back ... close them ...

I know the standard answer to this is always "the unlock button must've accidentally been pressed while your keys were in your pocket" but I'm sure there must be some other security feature that can cause it to happen also. Previously people have swore blind it couldn't have been the keys, and occasionally it seemed to have happened in the middle of the night.

I know the standard answer to this is always "the unlock button must've accidentally been pressed while your keys were in your pocket" but I'm sure there must be some other security feature that can cause it to happen also. Previously people have swore blind it couldn't have been the keys, and occasionally it seemed to have happened in the middle of the night.

When it happened to me if the windows didn't open during the middle of the night then the alarm took several hours to notice and trigger (This was during stormy weather as well - blowing a gale and ****ing down). Also I am curious to know why the rain sensor picked that one time not to close the windows during torrential rain.

I find this feature very useful on venting the car on hot days before I get near it. On two occasions I've left a window open for the dog only to find it shut when I get back because it's rained.