Safelock

[JohnCalifornia]

In a recent post I was getting confused with dead locks (when you press the lock on the remote on other manufacturers cars) and the Safelock system in our Calis. The Safelock must be VWs deadlock system. The hand book says 1 press of the lock button on the remote sets Safelock. This I imagine is similar to deadlocks on another manufacturer car. It means you can’t open the doors from the inside once the lock button is pressed once. Twopresses of the lock button doesn’t enable Safelock and you can then open the doors from the inside when the Cali is locked. I’ve had a play with this today and when I’m inside I lock the Cali using one press of the lock button on the remote. When you try and open a door one time it won’t open but pull the lever on the doors twice and the doors open. Surely this can’t be right as when Safelock is set the whole point is that you can’t simply break a window then reach in and open the doors. I’m having some electrical gremlins at the moment and I’m pretty certain before I had these you press the lock button twice on the remote and there was a clicking sort of noise. This would have been turning off the Safelock part of the central locking system. Maybe it never made a noise. I think I’m getting paranoid with all the warning lights on the dashboard at the moment

 

[Perfectos]

When you lock the van what does the Red LED do (drivers door) look closely immediately on locking with the Fob.

Should be a series of about 6 short quick blinks , then the alarm should be armed and the red LED goes into a series of blinks every 10 seconds (approximately)


If on initial locking the red led flashing is not as above there may be an issue with the door lock(s) - I have had two sliding door lock failures.both times the initial flashing (self check ) was different from the normal fast flash

The Red led is designed to go into a normal blinking pattern after the initial check even if an issue exists (purely so the alarm cannot be detected as defective by a would be thief )

Edit Pay attention to the blinking pattern on locking, the self check will flash differently if a problem is detected before reverting to the normal blinking flash

 

[JohnCalifornia]

I’ll check tomorrow. Thanks for the replies