Now I am making a bit of an assumption here. This afternoon I unlocked my Ibiza with the remote, opened the drivers door, took my tyre pressure gauge out of it's cubby hole, closed the door and started checking the tyre pressures on the Panda which is going for its MOT first thing in the morning. As I was checking the second tyre the Ibiza relocked itself. I assume that if the key was lying on a seat, or maybe in the boot, rather than in the ignition where the car would "see" it, then the doors would lock with the keys inside? or am I missing something? I've noticed it locking itself before. It did it whilst I was standing talking to my son outside his house - key was in my pocket.Central locking that self activates after a few minutes and locks the keys you left on the seat inside the car!!!!!
Now I am making a bit of an assumption here. This afternoon I unlocked my Ibiza with the remote, opened the drivers door, took my tyre pressure gauge out of it's cubby hole, closed the door and started checking the tyre pressures on the Panda which is going for its MOT first thing in the morning. As I was checking the second tyre the Ibiza relocked itself. I assume that if the key was lying on a seat, or maybe in the boot, rather than in the ignition where the car would "see" it, then the doors would lock with the keys inside? or am I missing something? I've noticed it locking itself before. It did it whilst I was standing talking to my son outside his house - key was in my pocket.
Thanks minirib. I actually have a fully licenced version of VCDS (in addition to my MES) which I used for service resets and fault finding etc on my old '99 Cordoba Vario 1.9tdi and my boy's ancient Fabia. I found it very useful indeed. The old Cordoba was a pretty simple machine by comparison with my new Ibiza and I never felt the need to explore any of the "cosmetic" options - few as they were. The Ibiza is just out of warranty and so far I haven't even plugged the VCDS into it! I know it lets me alter these sort of things so I think a wee bit of experimenting might be taking place when the weather gets warm enough to sit outside in the car for a while.Most VAG group cars have lots of options regarding locking and unlocking. If it bugs you next time the car goes in for a service ask them to turn off auto locking.
There are other options like auto close for the windows when you lock the car, Auto lock above a certain speed, Beep or not when you lock/unlock the car....
leave a window open. Beware autoclose though.
... came up with the Fiat Croma ignition switch?
Any others that just make you ask "why?"
its a saab part
its a saab part