Locked out!

[keelaw]

I didn't realise there was a way to unlock all the doors from the driver's door.  I've never had a 5-door before. 

the clue is the padlock open and padlock shut on the buttons.... 

i suspect it would open the boot as well

[Rolfe]

Great story Rolfe!

single click lock/unlock - locks/unlocks all doors/boot with one press of fob

I've had all my VW's changed to this over the last 10 years. Avoids Rolfe's issue too.

I suspect that's what I want it to do.  Even if there was an easier way of getting myself out of this morning's hole, I'm fed up pulling on handles and finding the door/boot/whatever doesn't open.

Rolfe.

[Rolfe]

I didn't realise there was a way to unlock all the doors from the driver's door.  I've never had a 5-door before. 

the clue is the padlock open and padlock shut on the buttons.... 

i suspect it would open the boot as well

Possibly, it would have been good even to open the back doors if I'd thought about it. 

Armrest/fold down half a seat?  I'm not sure it would have been all that different to dislodging the parcel shelf, which was what I did.

Partly, it's a downside of a pretty new car with an awful lot more buttons and knobs than I've been used to.  And it was blowing a gale and my hands were freezing and I had precisely 15 minutes to get ahead of the students and organise the second half of the class and get a coffee (and kill a sheep too though nobody had mentioned that bit by then), so clear and rational thinking wasn't really top of my attributes list at that precise moment.

Basically I don't really like the default, the bits of car that I want open never seem to be open when I want them, and I think I need this single click option.  I knew it would be easier to ask here than read the manual....

Rolfe.

[R32UK]

the unlock (padlock) button on the drivers door opens all the doors including the boot

RTFM 

[Exonian]

(and kill a sheep too though nobody had mentioned that bit by then)

Lamb chops this weekend then, Morag?

[Rolfe]

(and kill a sheep too though nobody had mentioned that bit by then)

Lamb chops this weekend then, Morag?

You wouldn't want these ones!  Large quantities of pentobarbitone do not a good mutton dinner make!   

Rolfe.

[Rolfe]

the unlock (padlock) button on the drivers door opens all the doors including the boot

RTFM 

Fair enough, I panic too readily!   

Is there no possibility that the car will lock everything on its own, when you might have left the keys inside?  It certainly didn't do that this time, and if that button opens the boot too, then it was all entirely my own fault for forgetting it was there.  I do slightly worry about it deciding to lock up completely though.

I'm going to get this single-click lock/unlock activated though, I don't have any reason to want some of the doors locked when I'm actually with the car.

And by the way, I still can't turn off the rear passenger courtesy lights.  They're still on this morning.  What did I do and how do I reverse it?  Anyone know?

Rolfe.

[topher]

The only time the doors autolock is if you press the remote button but then don't open a door within a certain time frame (about 30s iirc). I'm not sure if the boot counts as one of these doors - so quite simply never EVER put your keys in the boot. This has been a feature/problem since the mk4 days and even more so once they got old enough to have door lock modules start failing which will play havoc with the CCM.

I have all the fancy features and tricks enabled on all my cars but the best one is the "fumble with the fob in your pocket so the keys dont even see daylight when you unlock the car" modification

[Rolfe]

Unfortunately I have a longstanding habit of putting my keys in the boot.  It beats the mud or the long grass!  It was never an issue with the Peugeot, and I had that nearly 12 years, so it's a habit that would be hard to break.

If that door button really does unlock the boot, and it's impossible for it to auto-lock all the doors under circumstances where you might have left the keys inside, it's not a huge issue.  I just find the having the boot constantly locking itself even though the doors are unlocked and I have an armful of stuff is a nuisance.

I wish the thing waited a bit longer than 30 seconds to re-lock after remote opening, but I can live with it!

Rolfe.

[simonpolly]

Another note of caution,my father in law has a rocco he opened the boot only by using the key fob,he then dropped the keys into the boot and shut the boot 10 mins later he could not get into the car  I had to take him home to get his spare key.You have been warned