My car is a year old and just had it's first service. Within a week of buying it, I had just arrived home, got out of the car and tried to lock it with the remote keyfob. Nothing happened. I went to the car and checked the doors - all but the drivers side were locked. I pressed the internal lock button which clicked, but didn't open the doors. You could only open the other doors manually from the inside. I locked the car manually, which also appeared to set the alarm. When I checked about 20 minutes later, everything was working again. This didn't happen again for a month or so. Now it's happening several times a week. When it went in for its service last month, the dealer was asked to have a look and they said they couldn't find anything wrong with it.

It doesn't happen in any particular place. Most often at home, but it does happen anywhere.

Any ideas?

Same happened to my car.

Convenience control unit was changed under warranty, no problem so far

This is a known issues, I had it happed about 4 times in the last two years...

At the service this weekend, I was told that it is a voltage issue, and a diode was added to control the voltage.

(Or something like that ...)

Ask the dealer to Phone the Alex Lawrie dealers in Liverpool, as they seemed to know what ths issue was with my car!

For info, It usually happened like this with me...

I ioened the car as normal, drove to work, (25 miles) then when I got out of the car, the key fob would not lock the car, the front doors would open as a passenger and myself used the internal door handles to open the door.

The back doors remained locked, and would not open from inside or outside.

after messing about this the doors for a while the alrm went off (Unrelaited to the error) it just thought there was an intruder...

I then locked the ar with the key. after about half an hour it waws all working as expected. This happened the same way on 4 seperate occations.

As mentioned somewhere else, this would be a huge problem if there where kids in a car seat in the back...

HTH

Brin

Thanks guys. I'll speak to the dealer.

SInce this is the latest thread on the subject I though I'd add another instance to it.

My wife's car has had the central locking problem a couple of times now - keyfob does nothing and boot won't unlock; rights itself after a few minutes. We had Skoda Assist out this morning and he diagnosed the problem as being down to the voltage problem and the diode fix. As I type this he's contacting the local dealer to tell them to arrange the fix.

Interestingly it went in for a service (at another dealer) and though we reported the issue they said they could find no faults and just reset the central locking.

All quite annoying but glad that there's a known fix.