It Isnt :eek:

Had an Embarassing moment at a Track day yesterday when a person who wishes to remain ananymous (NOT ME) opened the car on the remote, opened the boot, the car either locked itself or *** locked it. Then *** proceeded to put keys in coat pocket, coat in boot & shut boot !!.

Quick ask round the paddock revealed "a man who could", took about 10 mins taking great care not to damage anything to get the doors open. If he hadnt have needed to be careful & had brought what he needed rather than things scrounged from a builders skip about a Minuite would have had the doors open so be warned.

FOR OBVIOUS REASONS I wont post how he got in & if anything is left in the boot once the cars open pull the rear seats forward & your in the boot so even things left in the boot arent safe.

nothing quicker than a house brick,getting in without breaking anything is more difficult.

With a little 'insider' knowledge most cars are quick to break into (even when deadlocks are activated) :thumbdwn:

This can have its advantages when you lock your keys inside your car however, as a mate of mine found out in his Ford Mondeo

I think feature should be on there that if ANY door open, not just drivers, car won't lock from remote. Its daft at the moment

I broke into the wifes vrs with similar ease to rescue the keys once too.

A few weeks later I had to try and get into a mates astra and after two hours I resorted to putting the window through.

I've got a good idea how he got in, as it's a known weakness across the VAG range on that generation of cars. Stuart, I'm assuming you haven't delocked the car?

Eddy, it's not 'that' trick although a guy in work was stunned when I showed him that on his VR6 4 motion Golf.

VAG sorted that out on the later models of that generation.

Eddy' date=' it's not 'that' trick although a guy in work was stunned when I showed him that on his VR6 4 motion Golf.

VAG sorted that out on the later models of that generation.[/quote']

Ah ok, I then suspect that only enough access was gained to get the back seat forward and retrieve the keys rather than getting a door open for someone to get in.

I've got a good idea how he got in, as it's a known weakness across the VAG range on that generation of cars. Stuart, I'm assuming you haven't delocked the car?

This was featured on Watchdog about a year ago.

Ah ok, I then suspect that only enough access was gained to get the back seat forward and retrieve the keys rather than getting a door open for someone to get in.

Car Standard, Drivers door opened first.

I will PM you

Thanks for the PM Stuart.

The method Stuart has described to me is fairly well known and can be used on pretty much any car. However if the deadlocks were activated it would be ineffective at gaining entry to the car.

Thanks for the PM Stuart.

The method Stuart has described to me is fairly well known and can be used on pretty much any car. However if the deadlocks were activated it would be ineffective at gaining entry to the car.

I thought the first click of the remote automatically triggered the deadlocks. And if you didn't want deadlocks on then yuo would press the button a second time within 10 seconds.

Maybe this is when locking, and doesn't apply to the automatic lock after so many seconds.

I thought the first click of the remote automatically triggered the deadlocks. And if you didn't want deadlocks on then yuo would press the button a second time within 10 seconds.

Maybe this is when locking' date=' and doesn't apply to the automatic lock after so many seconds.[/quote']

Yes but if a door or boot is open the deadlocks don't activate AFAIK.

If anyone thinks their Octy 1 is hard to break into they should be asking why the insurance grouping is so high !