6C front passenger door won't open from inside

[og77]

As per title - any ideas?

Potentially relevent: was sat in the car at the allotment supervising the hubby when I decided I'd see what my alarm sounded like. So I locked the car with me in it and waved my hand in front of the sensors above the rear view mirror. Alarm sounds noisy. After that, the passenger door won't open from the inside.

Unrelated coincidence?

Edited to add: the door can be opened normally by using the handle on the outside of the car. Which is useful because I can tell the passenger to open their window to use that handle rather than them climbing across my beloved car.

[og77]

Sorry to break board etiquette and bump my post, but just wondering if anyone has any ideas? Or if there's anything I can check myself before I take it to the garage? I keep taking my car to the garage for things that end up not being broken, so I'd like to avoid doing that again if I've just accidentally enabled some "safety feature" whilst messing around with the alarm

[RUM4MO]

I've never tried that trick, so, just to get things correct in my head, you pressed the key fob lock button while you were sitting in the car, after proving that the alarm worked, you pressed the fob unlock button, but while that disabled the sounding alarm, it did not unlock the car doors - also, now that you have opened the car door and got out, locking the car while outside and using the fob works okay, and then unlocking it with the fob now works okay?

Don't worry about bumping your own postings, you would not have needed to do that if anyone had posted a reply!

Edit:- I'm sure that I've read about someone in a similar aged Skoda Fabia getting locked inside their car - but in that case it would have happened after either the car had "auto locked" after moving off, or they had pressed the "lock" button on the inside of the car - that was a bit alarming for that person!

[rivatt]

Hi,
Seems to me that it is a mechanical failure between the inside handle and the actual lock. Could be the cable or pull rod jammed. The inside handle is separate from the outside handle mechanism on the lock so that could account for being able to open from outside but not inside. Has the inside handle still got the same amount of resistance when operating or is it looser or unable to be pulled? All indicate mechanical failure of that part if so.

Turning to the electrics, I am unsure why it is not locking. Have you locked with the key fob and checked that all doors are in fact locked?
Have you tried locking or unlocking the passenger door with the key then trying the fob and checking the doors to see if all unlocked or all locked and in sync?

It could be that the mechanism has jammed and you have blown the fuse, might still be able to correct it with the key movement but obviously will then need to change the fuse. You might check your handbook and see which fuse the passenger door lock is on and what else is on that same fuse to see if they are still working.

Hope this is of some help, once you have tried some of the things I suggest come back and let us know how you get on

[rbz5416]

There is a setting in the media player menu that controls which doors are unlocked from the fob. Mine was originally set to only unlock the drivers door so the first time I carried a passenger, they couldn't get out!

"Car" button
Gear icon, bottom RHS
Opening & closing
Tap down arrow & select "All doors".

[RUM4MO]

There is a setting in the media player menu that controls which doors are unlocked from the fob. Mine was originally set to only unlock the drivers door so the first time I carried a passenger, they couldn't get out!

"Car" button
Gear icon, bottom RHS
Opening & closing
Tap down arrow & select "All doors".

I know that you are trying to help, but I don't think the issue the OP has, has anything to do that these options.

[Slider09]

It’s the deadlocks. That’s how it is supposed to work.


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[RUM4MO]

I think that this thread needs a bit more clarity from the OP, the way I have interpreted things are:- owner sitting inside car pressed the LOCK button on the key-fob only to test that the movement sensor would initiate the alarm if he/she waved their hands about > the alarm did get triggered by that action, so the owner pressed the UNLOCK button on the key-fob and then found that they could not open the doors from the inside of the car, but if they opened a window, they could open the door by grabbing the outside door handle.

If that is what actually happened, then it points to a door locking/unlocking malfunction, if any of my assumed steps are incorrect then maybe it was only the dead locking working as it should as far as not being able to open the doors from the inside, for instance, if the owner used the interior UNLOCK doors button while the car was dead locked, then what happen as far as not being able to use the interior handles to open the doors is how it should be - but how does that explain that the exterior door handles still were able to open these doors?

Definitely need some clarity, and/or a long thing about what exactly the steps taken were after the alarm sounded.