Hi, I was wondering if anyone can help.

My partner has a 63 reg octavia estate as a work vehicle and found today that one of the rear passenger doors is not locking with the key fob. All other doors, including the boot, are working fine on the central locking, except one rear door. Is this a common fault? I'm worried as there's been a spate of car break-ins in the area recently and with it being a work vehicle, it's probably at higher risk.

Is there anything we can do to secure it before taking it to a garage?

Any advice is welcome.

 

Hi, I was wondering if anyone can help.

My partner has a 63 reg octavia estate as a work vehicle and found today that one of the rear passenger doors is not locking with the key fob. All other doors, including the boot, are working fine on the central locking, except one rear door. Is this a common fault? I'm worried as there's been a spate of car break-ins in the area recently and with it being a work vehicle, it's probably at higher risk.

Is there anything we can do to secure it before taking it to a garage?

does it lock with the button inside,id get to the dealers, it may just need resetting/rebooting, its under warranty

Any advice is welcome.

 

hmm, sounds like a micro switch could have died - trip to the dealer for a new lock.  in the meantime I suggest you 'emergency lock' that door - its in the manual, somewhere around p229, just after changing the battery in the key fob (I was just looking at that and saw it straight after)

Thanks I'll tell him to give that a go!

I just wanna say a MASSIVE THANK YOU for the guy who shared the problem and the guy who wrote the page in the manual to reset the lock microswitch

On 13/10/2014 at 21:28, neiln said:

hmm, sounds like a micro switch could have died - trip to the dealer for a new lock.  in the meantime I suggest you 'emergency lock' that door - its in the manual, somewhere around p229, just after changing the battery in the key fob (I was just looking at that and saw it straight after)