Alarm Movement Sensor - disabling for sleeping / leaving dogs / windows ajar [thread merge]

[DXX]

Found this switch while cleaning the van today, anyone know what it is and what it does?

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It shows the location of the Owners Handbook

 

[Seany68]

Best way to to lock your van whilst sleeping in it?

 

[Moodz]

press the lock all doors button on drivers door.

 

[Pete C]

We don't bother. It's not like you aren't going to notice if someone gets in !

Pete

 

[j4ckal]

I manually lock each door, like I used to in my old T4. Is that not right, ie. can it damage the mechanism?

 

[DXX]

This subject is well covered on the forum, mainly due to occupants waking up an entire campsite with the interior motion alarm being activated.

 

[Spaghetti]

press the lock all doors button on drivers door.

That’s what I do. It locks the doors and the tailgate, but not the alarm or deadlocking. Can open the doors with a double pull, and it doesn’t set the alarm off.

 

[Lubrown]

I manually lock each door, like I used to in my old T4. Is that not right, ie. can it damage the mechanism?

Same here, hasn’t damaged the locks on our van.
Not sure why I always forget the lock all doors button exists? Probably age.

Actually… probably beer.

 

[Dellmassive]

Double press the foB lock button.

That should lock, but unlock the deadlocks.

As above you can open the door from inside, ?

If you have alarm inside there will be a button on the door pillar to disable it.

 

[roadtripper]

Double press the foB lock button.

That should lock, but unlock the deadlocks.

As above you can open the door from inside, ?

If you have alarm inside there will be a button on the door pillar to disable it.

In our T6.1 Caravelle there is no physical button for the interior alarm, you have to do it through the head unit menu every time.

However the double press from the key fob now disables both the deadlocks and interior alarm (but not the door circuit alarm)

Note for folks new to Transporters it took me an age annoying the neighbours to figure out the key fob. The manual makes it sound like you press it once to lock and press it again a bit later to disable the deadlocks/alarm. It isn't you have to do a quick double press like you'd double click a mouse to toggle the state.

The few times we've needed it we've used the drivers door lock button. The one gotcha I discovered here is that on our van at least while you can open the sliders from the inside when locked like this they are still "locked" and you can't open them again from the outside if they shut...

 

[Scottish Scrutineer]

The advantage of using the fob (double press to lock) is that using it to unlock and then taking it with you, saves the situation where the van locks with you outside and the key inside