Hi, just bought a skoda fabia 2009 1.2, and it started to lock and unlock itself like crazy. There's clearly an electrical fault. When I drive the lights keep flashing, so it looks like i have hazards on, and when I'm parked it announces to the world that it's unlocked, so I was wondering if I could just remove the convenience system fuse, so that it stops flashing, and have my car's doors opening manually with the key, until I can get it fixed?

 

I'm worried that removing the fuse will result in further damage or worse, a fire, but I've read many posts with similar issues where people talk about removing fuses? Any ideas?

find someone with vcds to scan the car

I will, I just need to drive the car 40 miles first and then possibly leave it overnight before I can get it diagnosed, and want it to stop flashing lights to announce locking and unlocking. Will taking the convenience system fuse allow me to do that?

i think on your car the ccm is a combined bcm

 

so if cut the power to that it would cause other issues

Hmmm, that's what I'm afraid of...

I'm sorry if my questions are stupid, I only just bought the car, drove it for a total of 5 days before this and I'm not very familiar with car electronics.

 

I found this list of what the central control unit for convenience system does in my car:

 

Central locking control

Anti-theft warning system control

Tailgate lock

Convenience activation

Signal reception of remote control

Position display of the central locking system   If this list is correct, then would it be okay to remove the fuse?

Might be worth phoning the dealership to ask if they can shed any light on what might be at fault... Also, ask the seller if you only just purchased it. If it was a trader, its their problem anyway and even a privates seller, if you asked them of any known faults and they failed to disclose it, may be held to blame at least to some degree. Problem is proving they knew! Trader won't have to know.