Hello all,

 

New member here. Happy to have found this forum, with so many interesting topics!

 

Before I visit the repair shop and pay 110 euro for a new lock motor installation, I would like to share my problem here, in case there is anything that can be saved. here goes:

 

i) When I use the key from the driver's side, all doors lock and unlock fine. Nothing to see here.

ii) When I use the key from the passenger side, all doors lock fine, however unlocking does not do it for the driver door (90% fail rate). All other doors unlock fine.

iii) When inside the car and using the lock/unlock switch, doors will lock fine, but again will unlock all except the driver's door (same fail ratio)

iv) When using my chinese ebay remote fob installed 6 years ago (should have gone for the OEM solution, I know), again doors will lock fine, but unlocking opens all except driver's door again.

 

So to sum up, locking always works for all doors. Unlocking works for all doors except the driver's. Unless I put the key in the driver's lock, which then works fine.

 

Questions:

1) Is it 100% needed to change the expensive entire locking motor to fix the problem? Or could something be blocking the mechanism? Something that could be "refreshed" or cleaned up and work somehow?

2) Could my cheap chinese remote lock kit have caused the degradation of the lock motor mechanism? Will I see a difference if I temporarily remove it from the car?

 

Thanks a lot in advance,

 

Alex

First Welcome to the forum.

 

It is possibly a 5€ micro switch in the lock mechanism that's failing, this is a common problem on other VAG models, there is a good write up of how to repair/replace the micro-switch in this post http://www.briskoda.net/forums/topic/126257-octavia-1-replacing-door-latch-microswitch/

1 hour ago, nige8021 said:

First Welcome to the forum.

 

It is possibly a 5€ micro switch in the lock mechanism that's failing, this is a common problem on other VAG models, there is a good write up of how to repair/replace the micro-switch in this post http://www.briskoda.net/forums/topic/126257-octavia-1-replacing-door-latch-microswitch/

 

Thanks for that. Although the price is great, the skills and tools required is probably above my "noobness". As for garage/repair owners, we all know they will never want to go that way and will instead tell you to buy the entire mechanism just to be sure.

 

Thanks for the alternative though.