Dead Lock or Mother-in-law problems

[Roy and Val]

Good Morning and may I wish everyone on here a Merry Chtristmas and hope you all have a very prosperous New Year...and thanks for all your help on previous posts of mine.

Well, now to the problem, On Christmas Eve I took my 89 year old Mother-in-Law to the hairdressers during the journey as usual the door locks came on automatically. When we arrived at the hairdressers the Mother-in-Law pulled and pulled on the inside handle before I had the chance to press the unlock button. She is also deaf so my cries of stop stop fell on deaf ears literally. When I got her to stop I unleased the centrall locking the little button came up but the door wouldn't open. I tried again ..no luck. Have anyone of you tried to get a 89 year old to try and climb from the passengers seat over to the drives seat, believe me not easy.

Anyway, my wife and I eventually managed to get her out and into the hairdressers with her muttering something about bloody foreign cars, she also said that she and her husband had a Austin Allegro for years without any problems. To be honest after she had been to the hairdressers I didn't think all the effort was worth it, but I wasn't brave enough to say so !!!!

So, now I am left with a car which the front passenger car doesn't open even though the little button is going up and down like the other three.

All advice, hints and tips would be gratefully accepted including any recommendations for a good secure nursing home preferably quite a few hours drive away.

[Octygone]

No idea about the car but poison and then send the body on by parcel force (never to be seen again) could be a long term solution


All I can think of is it may have jammed the door opener inside so it may be a case of trying to remove the door panel.

I'm sure someone on here will know.

[SJFISHER67]

My father isn't in his 80's but he is 73, and always grabs the handles before I have a chance to unlock them with the button, why are people so impatient to get out the car? - When I am still slowing down to a crawl, and not quite stopped. I have had many a row with my father over grabbing the door handle - thing is, he doesn't mutter, he shouts and over uses the swear words.

But hey, he is my dad and I do love him!

[limlien]

Did u switch on the child proof switch?

[Roy and Val]

Originally Posted by limlien

Did u switch on the child proof switch?

Two questions

a) How would I switch on the child proof locks and?

b) If I did switch it on would it just affect front passenger door?

[rum4mo]

Originally Posted by limlien

Did u switch on the child proof switch?

limlien, the nackered door is the front passenger door so I don't think its got a child lock thing.

Roy and Val, the child lock switch is fitted to both back doors so that this function (disabling the internal release) can be activated on individual rear doors as required.

Mother-in-laws, huh! I know one that has just asked for most of the receipts for her presents - but not, it seems, the one for the bottle of gin!

[Roy and Val]

thanks again, I don't think it is the child lock thing....when the button is in the up position the door won't open from the outside either.

[Supurbia]

Looks like shes broken the link bar to the handle, only a door card off will reveal it, as it's newish, play dumb and get Skoda to fix it under warranty.

[Raptor]

Hi
I have an Elegance 2.5 TDI 7 months old, no mother in law, but passenger door refused to open following a MANU game! my mate is a big lad and he thought he had broken it, ( can not wait to tell him mother in laws are really strong girls ), good job we won or I would not have been so laid back about it. The dealer needed to replace the door lock and he said the release handle cable was also kinked. So poor mother in law, bless her was not to blame.
Clever how the dealers can get the door open!!

[Roy and Val]

Thank you everyone for your replies..the car has now been repaired by Mitchell Skoda of Chester. In order to get at the front door mechanism they completly removed the back door !!!!!!!!! It would appear it is the easiest way to get in without causing damage to the door lining. They needed to fit a new locking mechanism and just by chance it had also happened to their demo Superb just this week.

Anyway, all is now well and repaired. Thanks again to everyone for their advice and suggestions and now I have to go cap in hand and grovel to my Mother in Law for blaming her damaging the door handle. Now that really is a scary thought !!!

[Seloco]

I'm a bit surprised that no one has yet mentioned that, if you want to exit the car with the engine still on and therefore the doors still autolocked, you can do so by opening the internal door handles twice (no need for the driver to press the master unlocking switch). The first time you move the handle it unlocks the door; the second time you do it, it opens it.

I've managed to train most of my passengers to do this now; fortunately none of them have tried the brute force approach to the first attempt yet!

[swedishskoda]

In Sweden, ****ey seats are known as "mother-in-law seats" - for obvious reasons...

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A conversion that would give a nice touch to a Suberb, I think... and all future problems sorted

[Surrey White]

I've been having trouble opening the rear passenger door on my Superb for the last two weeks. It may have been going on for longer, but its had a lot of use recently, normally I only unlock one door.
About 80% of the time it will not unlock with the other 2 passenger doors, and once (that I've noticed) did not lock again.
It's in the local dealer today for repair under warranty so hopefully I will have a 4 door car again!

[Roy and Val]

Originally Posted by Surrey White

I've been having trouble opening the rear passenger door on my Superb for the last two weeks. It may have been going on for longer, but its had a lot of use recently, normally I only unlock one door.
About 80% of the time it will not unlock with the other 2 passenger doors, and once (that I've noticed) did not lock again.
It's in the local dealer today for repair under warranty so hopefully I will have a 4 door car again!

It seems there is more than me having trouble with locks on newish Superbs, when I took my car to the garage the engineer asked if the trouble was on one door or all four. It would appear if the trouble is apparant on all four doors the trouble is likely to be a central locking issue, if the problem is limited to one door it usually indicates a dead lock problem....hope yours is sorted ok for you.

The one positive out of the problems I have had with my passenger door is that my Mother-in- Law is now refusing to travel in my car yeeppeeee every cloud and all that.

[Surrey White]

Good news - I now have a four door Superb again! Withams in Walton lubricated the lock mechanism while I waited.
Mine isn't new, but I have one years warranty as I bought it from a Skoda dealer.
When I picked the car up in October, I had the same problem so it has returned. Maybe I'm going to have to learn how to strip the door and which bits to lubricates......