Hello guys,

I seem to have a problem with the boot Opener on the fob, it doesn't work on either of the keys, unless I'm doing something wrong?

It locks and unlocks on the top and bottom buttons , unlocking on the bottom button opens and locks the boot, but the middle boot button doesn't do anything. Any ideas??

 

I should add its a 2023 .

A different car, but on my wife's 2015 Polo, when I press the middle button, you don't actually hear anything happening, but the boot will have unlocked and that area removed from the alarm system, if  I then open the hatch and close it, the boot is relocked etc, if I wait about and don't open the boot/hatch, it will relock after a short period of time - same as the rest of the car will if the top button is pressed and then no doors are opened within a certain period of time.

The middle button will open just the boot, but you have to keep the button depressed for a couple of seconds. Just pressing it quickly won't do anything,

It's a precaution against accidently pressing it when you lock your car.

I had this experience when I had my Fabia. Thought it was a fault and spoke to the dealer. He came up with a load of crap about it being something to do with the basic Kessy system. He reckoned that because I didn't have the full Kessy system where you can lock your car by just touching the door handle, it "disabled" the boot unlocking on the key fob. I went along with that for 5 months until I saw a post on this forum that told me about pressing the boot release tab on the fob for a couple of seconds.    

I should add its a 2023 .

27 minutes ago, john1952 said:

The middle button will open just the boot, but you have to keep the button depressed for a couple of seconds. Just pressing it quickly won't do anything,

It's a precaution against accidently pressing it when you lock your car.

I had this experience when I had my Fabia. Thought it was a fault and spoke to the dealer. He came up with a load of crap about it being something to do with the basic Kessy system. He reckoned that because I didn't have the full Kessy system where you can lock your car by just touching the door handle, it "disabled" the boot unlocking on the key fob. I went along with that for 5 months until I saw a post on this forum that told me about pressing the boot release tab on the fob for a couple of seconds.    

I thankyou Sir , holding for 2 secs unlocked the boot and the lights flashed. Thankyou very much.

The Fabia Mk 4 Owner's Manual includes a discrete section headed "Boot lid - with manual operation" and I've copied this below.

 

 

 

As advised in the postings above, to unlock the boot lid the key-fob's centre button needs to be held down for roughly 2 seconds, and the only indication that unlocking has occurred is that the car's turn-signal lights will flash twice.

 

If the boot lid's handle is then not pressed to release the lid, the boot lid will re-lock after 2 minutes (120 seconds) and the car's turn-signal lights will flash once to confirm this has happened.

 

If the boot lid's handle is pressed to release the lock and lift the lid, when the lid is next shut properly re-locking will take place immediately and the car's turn-signal lights will flashing once as confirmation. There's a risk with this arrangement that an owner might lock the key-fob in the boot and (apparently) a Skoda dealership can program in a delay between the lid's closure and it actually locking. This 'delay' capability was discussed in a 2019 Karoq sub-forum thread (link below) and I assume current Fabias' locking could similarly be tweaked.

 

https://www.briskoda.net/forums/topic/462682-tailgate-lock-delay-question/

 

My 2009 Roomster's key-fob's centre button operates in the same way, except a) there's a very audible 'clunk' after the button has been held down for a couple of seconds and b) the boot lid then physically disengages from its lock and can now be lifted without pressing its handle. This is more convenient, though it does mean that the boot can only automatically re-lock when the lid is next slammed shut.