So with the wrong kind of passanger you can actually risk that he opens the bonnet while driving?

Edited 28 October, 201510 yr by Gromle

So with the wrong kind of passanger you can actually risk that he opens the bonnet while driving?

Then that would be your ow my fault for being associated with that kind of person. But it will only release it onto the latch anyway so it still won't 'open'.

Mate tried it with an early one, admittedly a bit bull-in-a-china-shop stylee but managed to scuff his door trim and then broke the handle before it opened the bonnet.

 

maybe they have made the handles more "bendy" than "breaky" now. Suppose it is cheaper than doing the job right

My Octavia does not have any keyholes so if the battery is flat how can I access the car interior ? Has not happened yet but until I saw these posts I had not thought about the problem.

My Octavia does not have any keyholes so if the battery is flat how can I access the car interior ? Has not happened yet but until I saw these posts I had not thought about the problem.

 

There's a keyhole in the drivers door, under a cover on the handle, it's explained in the owners manual.

There's a keyhole in the drivers door, under a cover on the handle, it's explained in the owners manual.

Which will be locked inside the car when you need it. I really should practise opening the car using the key.

But even once you have got the driver's door open you can't open any other doors or the boot, which might be full of stuff which would presumably have to somehow be unloaded through the driver's door.

However, even when I had an ancient flat battery on my Focus that couldn't turn the engine over, the central locking still worked.

Which will be locked inside the car when you need it.

The keyhole is under a plastic cover in the outside door handle so what will be locked inside the car when you need it?

Which will be locked inside the car when you need it. I really should practise opening the car using the key.

 

 

?? No because it's on the outside handle...

The battery shouldnt really go flat, during normal use,so probably this is panicking about nothing,if there is a fault with the charge system the car will throw up a dash warning, if you are laying the car up for a bit, fit a trickle charger to them or run the engine up to temp once a week,

The battery shouldnt really go flat, during normal use,so probably this is panicking about nothing,if there is a fault with the charge system the car will throw up a dash warning, if you are laying the car up for a bit, fit a trickle charger to them or run the engine up to temp once a week,

?? No because it's on the outside handle...

He says that his manual is locked inside the car. God I am happy my car has its driving wheel on the left.. kinda saves me from the trouble

The battery shouldnt really go flat, during normal use,so probably this is panicking about nothing,if there is a fault with the charge system the car will throw up a dash warning, if you are laying the car up for a bit, fit a trickle charger to them or run the engine up to temp once a week,

 

Dunno, maybe because I keep my motors a while, I have had a battery reach the end of its days on every car I've had, sometimes 2. Usually left in an airport carpark for a week when there has been a sudden cold snap, always good for batteries that one.

 

I do trickle charge machines laid up near mains (Ctek chargers fantastic for that) and sling the booster pack in the boot if they're not, but that does rely on getting the bonnet open. Not that easy in a frozen car park at 2am in this thing!

 

The cars today drain the battery while standing quicker than you think, and they do put some mighty small batteries on some of these things.

 

Then you've just got sods law - gets me more times than I would like

Edited 2 November, 201510 yr by flybynite

Which will be locked inside the car when you need it. I really should practise opening the car using the key.

But even once you have got the driver's door open you can't open any other doors or the boot, which might be full of stuff which would presumably have to somehow be unloaded through the driver's door.

However, even when I had an ancient flat battery on my Focus that couldn't turn the engine over, the central locking still worked.

 

You raise a good point as it's the situation I was in last week when I went to the car and it wouldn't unlock then of course I couldn't check the manual.  I couldn't find one online either (for the Mazda6) for my version which wasn't much help either so it's definitely worth having a read and assuming there's an online manual for Skoda, get a copy of it to keep handy.

 

As for batteries going flat, my Mazda6 has had a completely dead battery twice in the last couple of months.  At the moment it looks like the first one was caused by the battery just dying and the second I'm hoping is due to the boot rug getting caught in the latch and the car leaving the boot light on as it's been behaving itself otherwise.

 

John

it's explained in the owners manual.

Which will be locked inside the car when you need it.

The keyhole is under a plastic cover in the outside door handle so what will be locked inside the car when you need it?

The manual of course. I take it you don't keep yours in the glove box?

Worth bearing in mind Skoda do produce an electronic version of their manuals for Android and iOS.

The manual of course. I take it you don't keep yours in the glove box?

 

Yes I do but then I don't need to read it to know there's a lock under the cover on the door handle and how to get to it, it's pretty obvious.

All the manuals can be downloaded from the Skoda website, as PDF files, and stored on phones, tablets, laptops etc and be read by Adobe Reader or similar.

The manual of course. I take it you don't keep yours in the glove box?

IF you read the relevent section of the manual and practise a few times, then it wont matter where you keep your manual as the knowlage will be in your head

I really should practise opening the car using the key.

IF you read the relevent section of the manual and practise a few times, then it wont matter where you keep your manual as the knowlage will be in your head

Which is what I said.

Yes I do but then I don't need to read it to know there's a lock under the cover on the door handle and how to get to it, it's pretty obvious.

Bit difficult to know there's a lock hidden under a cover if you've never seen one before and haven't read the manual, which warns that if you do it wrong you might damage the paint. Once you've tried opening the cover I expect it is obvious, yes.

Edited 3 November, 201510 yr by Rodge

.... a year after the last post but I spotted this, not sure how useful it is but it may help someone. From Pistonheads long term test -

 

"Eventually our AA man Paul came up with a plan - by using his ECU reader to power the 12V system we had just enough power to unlock the car, open the passenger door, access the bonnet release and jump it."

I asked my dealers service manager. He said use brute force on the bonnet lever. He said they haven't had a single one break yet

Can't you remove the mask on the driver door handle and manually unlock the door with a key?

Edited 14 December, 20169 yr by Croat

Can't you remove the mask on the driver door handle and manually unlock the door with a key?

 

Yes but our drivers door is on the right and the bonnet lever is on the left...

You can still open the bonnet, wasn't that the point?

You can still open the bonnet, wasn't that the point?

 

If you unlock with the key in the drivers doors the passenger door is still locked and preventing the bonnet release being operated.