Neigbour with a Fabia Mk4 called me recently, his drivers door and the rear (right) passenger doors were partly open with what looked like a stainless steel rod jamming the two doors in their partly open/closed positions, to make a long story short, it was the door umbrella that apparently had shot out somehow or other and jammed the two doors, he had partially opened the back door to let his dog out I think and had let his own door partially open, or something like that. The car was still under warranty so the dealer sent someone out and he told me they found that the door umbrella had somehow popped out of its recess in the front door and jammed the two doors. Wonder does the 3 year warranty cover the umbrella as well!!.

I very recently got a gift of one of those Skoda (doppler) umbrellas which the wife uses, it has a release button on the handle but I can't figure out how the umbrella could open with most of it still inside the door recess even with the button pressed, seems a unusual occurance, havn't seen any reference to this behaviour before anywhere.

On most of the automatic umbrellas I've seen, the shaft extends first - which appears to have happened in this case.

My umbrella might suggest that that could only happen if something broke inside the umbrella, photo1 shows the umbrella closed, photo2 shows it after pressing the release button, it can only extend a few inches as shown with cover on and even if the cover wasnn't on, the umbrella should still, IMO, be contained by the door plastic "tube", with the handle just extended by those few inches. I show a partiall extended umbrella in the next post (no room here) where you can see two cords extending to the umbrella top, maybe one of these gave way??

Edited Thursday at 09:583 days by Johngerard

Photo of partially extended umbrella.

Apoligies, its a year 2022 Kamiq, the neighbour didn't even know he had a door umbrella so it was never used.

He just opened his own door from the outside and when it opened he found the handle up against I presume the rear passenger door frame which was closed, he then opened this door and the handle then pushed further back. It was retrieved with no damage, the repair man handed it back in the closed position and the neighbour just put it away somewhere in his house and will give me buzz when he finds it again.

The door sleeve/tube is about 2 ins or so longer than the umbrella I have, I just inserted my umbrella far enough into the door to be able to press the release button, as expected, the handle only extended out by a few inches, this, with the umbrella cover on or off.

The Kamiq umbrella should be ~ 300mm long when closed.

Edited Thursday at 11:383 days by Johngerard

My Fabia Mk4's umbrella has a Velcro band around it so that, even when the umbrella's protective fabric 'sleeve' has been removed and the release-button on the handle pressed, although the handle springs back a short distance, the Velcro band stops the umbrella opening.

(On hit-man assignments, when I have a micro-Uzi hidden under my Fabia's driver's seat, the plastic umbrella-holder in the driver's door is perfect for holding the weapon's silencer.)

I had also tried it inserted in the door tube with the fabric sleeve and the velcro band undone, same result.

It happened on my car afew weeks ago when I attempted to enter the drivers side door.I could only open the door a couple of inches as the umbrella had partially opened.Entered via the passenger door and found it extended past the b pillar.

So it could do this in an accident and stop the driver getting out.

Clearly not thought about during the design!