auto door locking on Fabia?

[brenno]

If your ladies are worried get them to lock whichever door they are beside when getting in

Brilliant suggestion.

[wai]

It's not something i have personally wanted as i hate the thought of being involuntarily locked into the car whilst driving. I did get the great guys at the Wises Road dealership here on the Sunny Coast to hook "Biscuit" up to the system and set her up so when i unlock the car, all the doors unlock rather than having to press the button twice to unlock passenger doors.

It's not as bad as that

When it locks, you can still get out by pulling on the door unlock lever twice. Also it unlocks all the doors when you remove the key.

It is not to lock you in, but to stop you accidentally opening the doors when in motion, ot to stop kids accidentally opening the doors. It is also to stop theft from cars where people have valuables in cars. They pull up at lights and the light fiingered simply open the doors and take what they want.

[nightphotographer]

Comfort settings in VCDS - you can enable and disable a few different things.

I personally always enable the beep noise when locking and unlocking - annoys a lot of people, but lets me know the cars actually locked. The beep on the Polo is loud enough that you can hear it from inside the house - great for double checking before you go to sleep

[wai]

If your ladies are worried get them to lock whichever door they are beside when getting in

But then they are not going to be able to get out. At least the auto lock system does allow you to pull on the lever from the inside twice to unlock the door. The thing is that in an accident, there is a good chance that the window glass will be broken, and if not, the "master key" (hammer) is used anyway.

In an ideal world, we should not need this, but the world is what it is. Also, for a lady locking the door they are beside, this will not stop bag shatches. The handbags are left on the seat adjacent to them, so it would be locking the door on the other side

[pologti18t]

In an ideal world, we should not need this, but the world is what it is. Also, for a lady locking the door they are beside, this will not stop bag shatches. The handbags are left on the seat adjacent to them, so it would be locking the door on the other side

How exactly do you lock the door next to you? Is there a individual lock button on each door?
Next, you have setup the locking so that it unlocks ALL doors when you get in. You either have to lock each door individually OR press the central locking button (you are back at the auto lock scenario!)

Bag snatchers, in general, open the passenger door and grab the bag.

So, auto-lock is no more dangerous than locking all the doors yourself.

[wai]

How exactly do you lock the door next to you? Is there a individual lock button on each door?
Next, you have setup the locking so that it unlocks ALL doors when you get in. You either have to lock each door individually OR press the central locking button (you are back at the auto lock scenario!)

Bag snatchers, in general, open the passenger door and grab the bag.

So, auto-lock is no more dangerous than locking all the doors yourself.

Come to think of it, you cannot lock individual doors as there is just one door lock actuator...the master.

The bit about bag snatchers is that they generally do their dirty work when you stop at lights or in the queue at lights. The reasoning goes that by the time you have go to such a situation, you have exceeded 11 km/h and so the auto locks have activated.

Bag snatchers are not the type to overthink things. They figure that the vast majority of driver only vehicles, or vehicles that have no one in the front passengers seat are more likely than not to have say a handbag or brief case there. So when the car comes to a stop at lights, they get the door open and take whatever is on the front passenger seat. The other target is the hatch or rear doors on vans as they are rarely lockable individually. It is simply a case of lifting the hatch and taking whatever they want while you are in the driers seat and by the time you react, they are long gone.

This locking does not lock the doors so that someone inside can't get out. It just requires two pulls on the opening lever to open the door. If you are in an accident and need assistance being extracted, glass is cheap and easy to break. If you can't get the door open with two pulls, then the mechanism is probably stuck so even if unlocked you would not be able to open it.

But it is not just theft that auto locking helps prevent, it also works against car jacking. It is quite off putting for a thief to grab a door handle and see it is locked. These things are done in the shortest possible time. If your door is locked, they will go elsewhere as they don't want to knock on the glass and ask if they can rob you.

In the end it is a personal choice and an option.

P.S. I just checked the manual on my Caddy Maxi Life, and it says that when the air bags have been deployed, the central locking sees all door locks turned off.

[steveyoshi]

Fabia RS has default AUTO Lock of all doors including Hatch (Wagon Presumeably) after 15kmh. Dealer can change via the PC connection.
Press button on centre console to open, or remove key from ignition. This also unlocks the Hatch.

As for doors locked when driving, I believe that all women (and men) should lock their car once inside. Having an accident where you can not open (or that they dont open automatically) is probably less likely than having someone trying to join you.

[Transporter]

Fabia RS has default AUTO Lock of all doors including Hatch (Wagon Presumeably) after 15kmh. Dealer can change via the PC connection.
Press button on centre console to open, or remove key from ignition. This also unlocks the Hatch.

As for doors locked when driving, I believe that all women (and men) should lock their car once inside. Having an accident where you can not open (or that they dont open automatically) is probably less likely than having someone trying to join you.

The doors auto unlock when the car is in accident.

[Pugdriver]

just test drove one yesterday. (Base 77TSI, a MY 11 demo.)

It auto locks just as I want.

You don't have to "double pull" the door handle to get out. It works just like my Peugeot - when you take off, it locks the car when you hit about 10 km/h. When you stop the car and open a door from inside, it automatically unlocks all doors.

Very happy with that.

Lovely little car - looks like we will be buying one, depending on the negotiations...

[Transporter]

...and it can also be set that it unlocks only when you remove the key from the ignition. But, important thing is that it will always auto unlock all the doors prior to an accident as well as the car will do automatically some other things that it is progarmmed to do.