Hi,

 

Mostly used to my new Skoda, but one thing is still puzzling me.  There is a lock/unlock button on the dash.  In my old car, I could use this to lock the car without the key being present (e.g. if I left it in the house or had already stashed into into my rucksack or something).

 

The technique in my old car was to open the passenger side, activate the lock button, then close the door.  This doesn't work with the Skoda.

 

Any ideas if it's possible to lock the car without the key in this way?  Seems odd to have the button for the sole purpose of locking the car whilst you are inside the vehicle.

In any VAG cars that I have had with that button, I've always assumed that its sole purpose was to lock/unlock the doors from you sitting in the driver's seat, and to only operate the first stage of door locking and so leaving them NOT deadlocked.

 

That button, so me has become more useful now that cars are being sent out with "anti carjacking" enabled, ie global locking when moving away and staying locked until individual doors get unlocked by opening them from the inside - something that you would not be able to do if they were deadlocked - as well as the motion sensor triggering the alarm on cars fitted with a car alarm.

 

Maybe something that you don't know able yet is that you can lock any door that does not have a key lock by removing the soft rubber bung from the rear facing door surface and flicking the manual locking that hides under that soft rubber bung - then closing that door, though that is meant as a back up for if the central locking system fails or the battery has failed or has been removed.

On 16/01/2022 at 15:22, 0094994 said:

 

The technique in my old car was to open the passenger side, activate the lock button, then close the door.  This doesn't work with the Skoda.

 

What if you realised that you left your keys in your coat laid on the passenger seat just after it locked by itself?