Location: Wiltshire. Model: '12 Black Elegance Estate 1.6 TDi CR, CAYC. Wife has a 1.2 90hp 2016 Fabia lll colour edition. Posted 16 December, 2020. The drivers door lock is a master for control of other door locks. Common problem on Mk2 is a broken wire in the elephant truck that connects the door to the body. Hi all. I hope that you technical wizards can help with this problem, the car is 2003 Octavia 1.9TDi Elegance, The problem is: remote central locking, electric windows, lights on buzzer, door open warning light,and interior light all fail together. Been to main dealers who suggest Convenience unit or possible wiring fault is to blame. Hello from Russia! I have Octavia A5 Elegance manufactured in 2007 equipped with original alarm with volume sensor. It is described in the manual that when I press lock button on remote twice in 2 secs the doors will stay locked (however without deadlock) but fuel flap will be unlocked. While I f Hi, This is a video of repair Lock/Unlock switch in Skoda Octavia, same type switch is used in Volkswagen VW, Audi, Seat, same technology is in other brand c I know it's fairly easy to hit the unlock central button once the car has locked itself and the doors can also be opened individually by pulling twice on the handle but my wife finds it worrying. Just done mine thanks to utube. Access the menu with button on wiper stalk, via convenience go to doors auto open or lock. (interior lights work with the other 3 doors fine). So the doesn't know it's opened now Tested key in the door, central locking works - as does the opening/closing window with key trick. Electric windows/mirrors/heated mirrors still work off drivers door. So what's causing the problem with the door now guys? To open the door of your skoda octavia that has no more battery, you will have to turn the key in the lock and at the same time try to pull the door handle . Repeat this process if it doesn't work on the first door on the second one, if it still doesn't work, go to the next step of this content page. 1.1-test the opening of the doors of the skoda octavia with the key. A first test to be carried out is that of the central locking. To do this click on your vehicle key. Observe if the malfunction is general. That is, do you have a single door stuck or several. If this is verified then it is likely that the malfunction comes from the Octavia Boot "open" light & central locking. Well it was another successful weekend for me. Another foray into the electrics of my 2005 Octavia MK1. The problem was that when I opened the boot, the little light didn't come on inside the boot. Plus, the dash light didn't show the boot was open. The central locking would always re-lock the car central locking problems on Skoda Octavia « on: 16 November 2009, 08:59:44 » My father has a bit of a problem on his Octavia. When he unlocks the drivers door the central locking doesn't work, and only that door unlocks. If he unlocks the boot or the passenger doors, central locking works and all doors unlock. baS2MeW.