I and half my neighbourhood got woken at 330am this morning with my 06 TDI estate alarm sounding! 
 

I tried to put it off with the blipper then put the key in to turn ignition on but it was obvious the central locking wasn’t right, it was cycling constantly in some way. 
 

So seems likely the locking issue triggered the alarm. 
 

I disconnected my battery during the night. My thoughts were a module gone bad but on reading just now am I right it’s more likely an issue has suddenly developed with (probably..) the drivers door locking actuator or maybe wiring into a door? It seems strange this happened so suddenly hours after locking the car but faults do occur..

 

Is there anything I can do to disable the central locking system in the hope of no flashing indicators with it? About a year ago I disconnected the passenger door actuator because it’s locking/unlocking was intermittent. I can still lock and unlock this door because I extended the pop up pin so you can grip it). So if there was a way to disable the locking and alarm activation this would be a help to let me use the car. 

 

The old girl is really getting due for replacement so unless an easy fix I don’t see it likely I’ll want to change door actuators or chase a wiring issue. 
 

I can update later when I see what happens when I reconnect the battery this morning but seems fairly likely the locking will still be going awol.

 

Any input appreciated re a work around (so as I have a car to use!) thanks 

Edited 25 December, 20223 yr by silver50

I see there are central locking fuses (two- one for boot lid no31 and another one 49) and a alarm siren fuse 60!

Fuse 60 should depower the alarm horm, fuse 49 should disable the central locking.

Best of luck and Merry Christmas. 

1 minute ago, Breezy_Pete said:

Fuse 60 should depower the alarm horm, fuse 49 should disable the central locking.

Best of luck and Merry Christmas. 

Cheers. Merry Christmas to you too.

1 hour ago, silver50 said:

Any input appreciated re a work around

Lock the car using the key, not the plip.

22 hours ago, KenONeill said:

Lock the car using the key, not the plip.

 

Thanks for replies. My car did (to my slight surprise) seem ok on reconnecting the battery. There was no sign of the central locking cycling.

 

Pulled the two fuses (alarm siren and main central locking). I'd read about the above key lock but couldn't help wonder that if there was/is an electrical problem, then the central locking might still act up of it's own accord? 

 

A pesky fault and not one you feel like you want to risk any further false alarms by doing nothing to see how it goes.