dont get me wrong i love my vRS and at the end of the day i would buy another. its just problems with a car can get very annoying and very inconvenient.

basically i have owned my vRS for just over a year now. the car is brilliant when it works. but now the car has been booked in to the dealer for the 5th time in a year to get problems fixed!(locking system is going mental, car is sitting out in the car park at my work with the hazard lightgoing on and off!! and the remote locking doesnt work or the buttons on the drivers door!)

i just think 5 visits to the garage in a yearis poor when the car is under 3 years old and only 19k on the clock!!!

Shonky VAG components, that's the problem...

Rob.

try a diff dealer....

i once sold a jag cos i had similar problems... loads of warranty work and each time it came back with a new fault.. the next owner got is serviced elsewhere and it has run faultlessly ever since (i bumped into the dealer who bought it a few weeks back...)

Chatting to a builder who parks his 1998 Passat 1.8T near my drive each day, he likes his car but not the persistent problems with central locking and alarm. So it's not just Skoda, but rather the VAG parts used.

ditto.

loads of central locking type issues with my seat leon.

ditto.

loads of central locking type issues with my seat leon.

Check where your parking it. If it is near overhead power lines this can cause a problems from what I'm told! Infact a local shopping centre car park has power lines above it and it means that some cars refuse to lock or start! They had an article in the paper about it...

mine is only parked on my mum and dads drive, no power lines near. or my work car park which is the same.

my car is getting worse, i drive it and the indicators flash as if the hazards are on! and i cannot set the cat1 alarm because it sets it off all the time!

so you have an aftermarket cat 1 alarm?

Ah - key words there may be "CAT 1 alarm" - aftermarket alarms are notorious for screwing up vehicle electrics if not very carefully installed. Can it be disconnected temporarily, maybe by removing a fuse?

Edit: LOL Paul types faster than me but the thinking is the same ...

......cat1 alarm

fitted by dealer or alarm agent?

Could be because of your alarm that you're having all these problems.

The only issue I have is an intermittent door open light...give the door a good slams or use the internal cl button and it goes away.

Edit: LOL Paul and Nick both type faster than me.

the internal cl button wont work! interior light comes on and wont go off. thing is alarm remote works fine but the carkey remote doesnt. alarm has been fine so far! to me it looks like the car CL messing up the alarm rather than the alarm messing the CL. i could be wrong tho

Kenny, have the alarm fitter come back and check the installation, and more importantly the fitment of it.

I had a Cat1 Toad fitted by a mobile engineer. Alarm was great but when he fitted the siren to the bulkhead he put a self-tapper straight into the wiring loom!! Symptom was my main beam would fuse if I flashed someone but only when the car was moving forward, I guess enough to stretch the loom and create a short. The final straw was the wiper fuse blowing.

After several visits and a very heated discussion with my dealer they contracted the work to an electrical engineer who stripped out the dash and traced the short to the bulkhead, where he found the fault. I was left will a bill of

Stray screws = cause no 1. Cause no 2 would probably be the use of Scotchlok connectors :thumbdwn:

problem is i bought the car secondhand and the alarm fitter is the other side of the country.

the car is booked into the dealer on friday so i guess i will have more of an idea by then.

doing my head in

Then it's the dealer

My alarm (I think its a Scorpion one fitted by the Skoda dealer in Maidstone who originally sold my car - it was their MD's car) went beserk a few months ago. It couldn't be shut off no matter what. It ended up at a dealer in Herne Bay to be fixed, took them the best part of a week to sort out and they had to replace the whole alarm in the end as they couldn't find what the problem was - when I picked it up the receptionist said the noise from continually trying to fix the old alarm had been doing her head in .... but they did sort it in the end

Also, I did have some issues with the warranty aspects initially with the Herne Bay dealer but in the end the Maistone dealer agreed that the car had been sold with the alarm fitted by them and the full Skoda 3 year warranty did therefore apply.

hopefully after friday i will know, cause i cant drive it about with the hazards comming on etc.

if its the alarm ill just get it ripped out!