Afternoon all.

 

Im due to pick up my new car in teh next week or two (95 Colours edt)

 

As standard will this have auto lock (lock on drive away) turned off?

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Good question! I'm sure it can be activated relatively cheaply via Carista or OBD Eleven apps, with the appropriate dongle. If it doesn't, this will be one I'll activate for sure. Watching this thread with interest.

I might mention it to the dealer before collection and get them to do it.

im guessing messing with OBD would have potentially have warranty issues?

Technically, yes. As a real-world situation, if you familiarise yourself with it beforehand, you can revert settings you've fiddled with for any dealership visits. Ergo, what they don't know can't hurt...or something. I don't think many dealers wouldn't sleep at night because someone has activated an additional safety feature.

Ask the dealer to actuate auto locking. Also set up remote unlocking - you can have it set so that one press unlocks all doors and the boot, or just the driver's door. There are obvious advantages/disadvantages to either. IMO you're paying enough for a new car so I would be very annoyed if the dealer refuses to do these 5 minute jobs.

20 minutes ago, bertJ said:

Ask the dealer to actuate auto locking. Also set up remote unlocking - you can have it set so that one press unlocks all doors and the boot, or just the driver's door. There are obvious advantages/disadvantages to either. IMO you're paying enough for a new car so I would be very annoyed if the dealer refuses to do these 5 minute jobs.

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What is standard for the locking., drivers it or all? 

 

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The way the controller was set up at the supplier or factory sometimes depends on the direction the wind is blowing that day, I can only speak for VW Polo but wife's new Polo in 2002 came with driver's door only on first press, which after thinking about it, as it was her I left it that way. Her new Polo bought in 20155 came with all door opening on first press, but auto locking/auto unlocking not enabled - I used VCDS to achieve that with the help of some motoring forums as that part of VCDS was in German. Lots of people buying new Polos just before and just after we bought her car had a "spread" of driver's door only or all doors on first fob button press.

13 hours ago, Iceax said:

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What is standard for the locking., drivers it or all? 

 

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As rum4mo it's a lottery!

If I recall correctly, this feature is selectable in the infotainment system...

1 minute ago, krigl said:

If I recall correctly, this feature is selectable in the infotainment system...

I have read that too, but still think it needs to be activated at dealer first?

Read this under individual settings... It looks like it is standard since it is in the user manual...

I have enabled this on my car using Carista recently. It auto locks all dors over 10mph.

14 minutes ago, EdHru said:

I have enabled this on my car using Carista recently. It auto locks all dors over 10mph.

Yea this is what I'd like

On my old 2007 Roomster I had to do auto lock/unlock and also single key press all door opening using VCDS. But on my 2016 Yeti both the above are on the maxidot infotainment menu.

I had to turn on Staging (celebration) though using VCDS on the Yeti.

This is what i thought, even though its in the infotainment system, it still needs activating via carista / vcds

 

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2 minutes ago, Iceax said:

This is what i thought, even though its in the infotainment system, it still needs activating via carista / vcds

 

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Oh Ok, my Yeti was already set to auto lock/unlock and single press all doors unlock when I brought it last month. So I haven't tried changing it. But maybe my vehicle was activated there by the last owner if that's the case.

I'm sure on the 2015 Polo, the selective unlocking is changeable via the infotainment system but "anti carjacking" - ie auto lock when moving at above 10KPH, I think is only enabled using the VAS tool or VCDS etc.

 

Edit:- again the auto locking does seem to be one of these features that is or is not enabled prior to build and varies across the VW Group marques.  My 2011 Audi S4 had it enabled so I set myself a task enabling that on my wife's 2015 Polo - though that ended up being a VCDS task, with my daughter's late 2009 Ibiza, I had bought Carista when everything came for a single up front payment and I discovered enabling autolocking was an offered "one click alteration" - so I did that so that all the cars we were using at that time had similar settings/functions. That Ibiza had the older "6R" set of controllers so enabling that function might have been different if using VCDS - and so no infotainment system just a radio/CD player.

Edited 22 February, 20197 yr by rum4mo

As @krigl post above - it looks like it's all in the Infotainment now. 

Ask the dealer to make sure it's set up as you want it beforehand - and they'll do it as part of the PDI (pre-delivery).

 

Enjoy the motor ! 

On reflection, yes, so maybe this area of briskoda needs a new Fabia section to cover the latest version - that is if current new orders Fabia are similar to Polo AW and not Polo 6C.

On my Fabia (registered July 2017, purchased by me 2nd hand in May 2018) it did not have the option of auto locking/unlocking of doors activated or present in the menus despite the manual seeming to suggest it should be present.  I activated it using Carista very quickly and easily.  The choice to unlock driver's door only, one side or all doors was present in the Infotainment system from the start.

 

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Ive just asked the delaer to turn it on for me pre pick up