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A work colleague of one of my mates came back to his Golf the other day to find it had been broken into, but the strange thing was all the windows were wound down, and there was no obvious damage to locks, handles etc.

 

Another mate is convinced that this is a known problem with the Golf, to the extent that Watchdog even featured it.

 

Problem is none of us can find any information, anywhere.

 

So 2 questions:

 

Does anyone remember hearing anything about it?

 

Is there anything that can be done to prevent it happening again?

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Isn't it something to do with the vacuum central locking system VW use?

 

Edit; Is that a bit more ambiguous?

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I don't know what it is but have heard of it before... was it a mk4 Golf?

 

Have a look on the Seat Cupra forum as the Leon also suffered from this - I don't think it's talked about too much on the net as it's an obvious security problem that doesn't want more publicity than necessary...

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Toad - That wouldn't open the windows though?

 

Phil - I did make a point of not asking how its done, more interested in preventing it happening again.

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Toad - That wouldn't open the windows though?

 

Phil - I did make a point of not asking how its done, more interested in preventing it happening again.

 

 

Oh yeah... Ought to learn to read properly.... :oops:

 

The windows thing does ring a bell now, but that's about it.

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bigtunes, I wasn't implying that you did ask how it was done, but I think you'll find that prevention solutions would still give clues to the fault and thus there won't be much/any info on the net... I have a feeling that Seat re-called a lot of the Leons to put this right so would think that VW will have a solution too.

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Phil - Apparently VW are denying all knowledge, but thats VW for you...

I have found a fix of sorts on the seat forum, so thanks for pointing me over there.

 

Toad - Does that actually work? I thought it was an urban myth!

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I dunno..... That's why I had a question mark at the end. :D

 

I can't see it would work, but I could always be wrong.

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on the mk3's onwards if you hold the key in the unlock position it unwinds all the windows...maybe theres a fiddle to em that makes that happen

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on the mk3's onwards if you hold the key in the unlock position it unwinds all the windows...maybe theres a fiddle to em that makes that happen

 

thats the one and you can turn it off with vag.com

 

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