New beetle

Hi all, does anyone know anything about the electrics on a 2005 beetle?

 

Imagine its a Golf.

 

Think @Louey has played around with one ??

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Which it is, of course.

 

My electric hood, central locking and drivers window not going down when I close the door as it should

 

Thank you, I’d appreciate that

 

Is it a problem with just the drivers door, or both doors?

 

Drivers door window and passenger door central locking

 

Does the locking on the passenger side twitch when you operate the driver's side switches. Is the hood controlled by a switch on the door?

Could be the switch assembly itself. If it's like Polo, they have metal dome contacts which corrode over time. The whole switch assembly goes barmy.

Worth checking your fuses as well.

 

Central locking on that generation of VWs is a weak spot. I think it's the attempts to make a more secure vehicle that cause problems as actuators and motors age

 

A common problem on golfs is the micro switch in the door lock. If it packs up, the car doesn’t know if the door is open or shut, and it gets all confused. If the interior light doesn’t come on when you open the drivers door, that’s your problem. A new lock mechanism from eBay for £20 sorts it out

 

Had that one on my old Mk 4. The locking controller used to go barmy.

 

It’s compulsory on mk4’s

 

...along with the rear washer filling the tailgate up with water and setting the alarm off at 4am

 

Mine did that on a campsite in the Peak District ..

 

Just remembered another Mk 4 speciality: collapsing window lifts. Open the front windows a bit, and the glass would suddenly vanish into the door, never to be seen again. Happened to me when it was peeing down with rain, predictably.

 

Well I got the hood down but it was a bitch to get it up again....the hood that is!!!