I wish to disable the remote locking on the car as it is a pain in the proverbial. You just have to breath heavy on the fob and it locks or unlocks. Stick it in my trouser pocket and it activates with the least movement.

My wife is paranoid about getting locked in the car. If she had her way we would drive everywhere with her holding her door open. As it is she won't close her door until I start to move off and opens it the moment we stop at our destination. It is open before I even get parked properly.

My plan is just to remove the battery from the fob but what I would like to know is, can I activate unlocking all doors from the key in the driver's door and can I deactivate the need to turn the ignition on immediately after unlocking with the key to stop the alarm sounding? If not, then the car or the wife needs to go.

You could take the coin cell out of the fob, and the alarm horn out of the car.  

Edited 13 May, 20242 yr by Breezy_Pete
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For a start there must be an issue with your key fob to do this as you have stated you press the buttons so is not keyless entry  before messing about with alarms and wiring you could try getting a replacement fob casing and transfer your circuit board to the new fob and give it a try, if the car doors lock after driving off on thier own you can get this removed with an pug in VCD  meter this was an option on these cars self lock all doors after 10mph or not at all no matter what happens you can open the doors by pulling internal handles twice this then opens the doors,  once car is running no alarm should work or stop the car no matter what button you press

6 hours ago, Murdockman said:

For a start there must be an issue with your key fob to do this as you have stated you press the buttons so is not keyless entry  before messing about with alarms and wiring you could try getting a replacement fob casing and transfer your circuit board to the new fob and give it a try, if the car doors lock after driving off on thier own you can get this removed with an pug in VCD  meter this was an option on these cars self lock all doors after 10mph or not at all no matter what happens you can open the doors by pulling internal handles twice this then opens the doors,  once car is running no alarm should work or stop the car no matter what button you press

I'm sorry I wasn't clear in my original post. I don't have an issue when driving the car. It doesn't lock or alarm or such. it is just when the keys are in my pocket. Just walking can activate the fob. It came to a head today when I stopped for petrol. I took the keys with me to open the filler cap and when I came back to the car it was locked. My wife was fine, she had her door open. However, I unlocked my door with one press of the button, we drove off and my wife shut her door but when we got home her door was locked. She got quite agitated.

Regarding removing the alarm horn, I don't want to lose the alarm function. I would just like to be able to open all four doors using the key in the driver's door without it setting the alarm off, as was the case with my old Jazz.

Will a replacement fob case also take my key as the current one does?

I see that I can swap the key itself over to a replacement fob however, it appears that my current fob has been glued and I am unable to open it. All I have managed to do is chew lumps out of the case!

I have found from other VAG forums that the VCDS will allow me to disable the 15-second delay between key entry and the alarm sounding but can anyone tell me if I can extend the delay using VCDS? I am disabled and struggle to get into a position to set the ignition in 15 seconds but a longer delay would help.

22 hours ago, Jocko said:

I see that I can swap the key itself over to a replacement fob however, it appears that my current fob has been glued and I am unable to open it. All I have managed to do is chew lumps out of the case!

If it's the same one we have on both Skodas here, it should just pop open along the seam in the middle. If you're going to replace the remote casing anyway, it doesn't really matter if you make bits of the old one.

 

Disabling the remote functionality is going to take more time and effort than just repairing the remote, so I'd just repair it.

2 hours ago, chimaera said:

If it's the same one we have on both Skodas here, it should just pop open along the seam in the middle. If you're going to replace the remote casing anyway, it doesn't really matter if you make bits of the old one.

 

Disabling the remote functionality is going to take more time and effort than just repairing the remote, so I'd just repair it.

There doesn't appear to be anything wrong with the remote. The buttons all need a distinct press to function. It is just my wife's paranoia when a button gets pressed accidentally.

Mine automatically re-locks if a door isn't opened within 1 minute and I have all doors unlock with a single press, if the car locked and you unlocked with one press your wife's door would have been locked when she closed it and not open on exit ?

Edited 14 May, 20242 yr by Crucian

Referring to opening the case, it pulls in half top and bottom but you need a small Philips screwdriver to open the functioning part and to get to that, you have to pop off the brand logo

14 hours ago, Jocko said:

There doesn't appear to be anything wrong with the remote. The buttons all need a distinct press to function. It is just my wife's paranoia when a button gets pressed accidentally.

If the buttons are activating as easily as you suggest in earlier posts, then something's up with it. It needs a fairly firm press to activate them normally. It's not impossible to press them when they're in your pocket but it's not a routine occurrence IME.

 

The only way your wife gets irretrievably locked into the car is when you hit the lock button on the remote when the driver's door is fully shut. In that situation, the deadlocks are activated and the interior handles and unlock button are disabled.

 

It sounds like your wife got locked into a car at some point in the past, and is scared of that happening again. It might be good to talk through that and see what's really spooking her.

3 hours ago, chimaera said:

It sounds like your wife got locked into a car at some point in the past, and is scared of that happening again. It might be good to talk through that and see what's really spooking her.

That is exactly what happened. We had only just bought our Volvo S40. I parked it with her and the keys inside, the engine running, shut my door and when I came to get back in I found the car locked. Neither of us had much idea what to do as the car was only a few weeks in my ownership. Eventually, I got her to open the driver's window and I reached in and pressed the unlock button on my door pull. Nine years and 82,000 miles later it had never done it again but she has been ****ers ever since.