daft
21-02-2006, 03:18 PM
hi guys
Newbie here. Got a weird problem with my Golf central locking.
Put my car in to a (local, non-VW but usually reliable) garage to get the timing belt done (60k miles) and a leaking power steering pipe replaced.
Timing belt was done no problem. Got the PS pipe done separately last week. All seemed ok, except that the battery must have been disconnected as the clock was about 7 hours out.
THEN realised when I got home that the central locking was playing up. Basically when I click once, the driver door unlocks, but the second click no longer opens the other doors. You can see the locks jump, as if they're trying to open, but can't quite do it. Same happens when you try unlocking using the key in the door.Very weird.
I put 2 & 2 together and figured something might have gone wrong with the electrics (since the clock was out when i got the car back) - phoned a VW spares place today to get a price for a new central locking unit\pump\motor as the garage have said they will try to fix it for me but would need to get a price for the parts.
NOW is the interesting part. The guy at the VW spares place told me he'd had the same problem before and it was nothing to do with the central locking parts. Apparently there is a round part inside the driver's door that, if broken, means the central locking won't work.
Anyone heard of anything like this before?
Thanks in advance for any insight you can give :)
Newbie here. Got a weird problem with my Golf central locking.
Put my car in to a (local, non-VW but usually reliable) garage to get the timing belt done (60k miles) and a leaking power steering pipe replaced.
Timing belt was done no problem. Got the PS pipe done separately last week. All seemed ok, except that the battery must have been disconnected as the clock was about 7 hours out.
THEN realised when I got home that the central locking was playing up. Basically when I click once, the driver door unlocks, but the second click no longer opens the other doors. You can see the locks jump, as if they're trying to open, but can't quite do it. Same happens when you try unlocking using the key in the door.Very weird.
I put 2 & 2 together and figured something might have gone wrong with the electrics (since the clock was out when i got the car back) - phoned a VW spares place today to get a price for a new central locking unit\pump\motor as the garage have said they will try to fix it for me but would need to get a price for the parts.
NOW is the interesting part. The guy at the VW spares place told me he'd had the same problem before and it was nothing to do with the central locking parts. Apparently there is a round part inside the driver's door that, if broken, means the central locking won't work.
Anyone heard of anything like this before?
Thanks in advance for any insight you can give :)