wiganlad81

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So I got woke by my neighbour on Wednesday Morning telling me my windows were all down. It rained most of the night too. The car was soaked. I rang Seat direct when they opened as I've given up on Listers (whole other thread). They suggested getting the AA to come check it.

AA man arrives (who only deals with seats) - gets hooked upto the car. Very kindly demonstrates how awesome his software had full control of the car. Ran his diagnostics and no faults found. He did identify, very precisely, a airbag arm fault in October last year. Whatever he did was very thorough obviously. He pondered it a bit and went and got an RF checker. He claims and showed me that a certain satellite dish next door but one pumps out enormous amounts of very strong RF. Enough he claimed that by the strength and some fluke that it has sent an open window command identical to my key.

Thoughts?

The key was in an empty bedside table draw all night. So I've not caught it or activated in error. There are other threads in earlier Ibiza/leon forums about this very issue usually root cause is water ingress. The Seat AA guy I mentioned this potentially known issue too said water ingress would have showed up as a dodgy circuit. The RF issue does seem a potential too especially from taxi cabs using that frequency illegally or a random signal from a skyeye (TV sender).

The cars fine in reality I've dried and dried it and will be running up the heat every time I get chance. I've got a case open with seat already re a couple little niggly issues. I'll be asking for some assurances this is a one off.:confused:
 
If it looks like a typical Sky dish its unlikely to be the issue, typically they are receiving signals not transmitting them.

My folks used to have problems with keyless entry on their Subaru if it was parked near electrical sub-stations or pylons etc so its not unheard of.
More likely to be water ingress IMHO.
 
:think: Shot in the dark here, maybe an exorcism is in order :D

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I once read that vw group cars could be broken in to by putting 12v on two points on the car to make all the windows go down. Nothing gone from in the car?
 
One thing nobody has thought about....... you can auto open/close windows from your key fob (programmed through the Easy Connect). See p101 on the MY13.pdf at the top of the forum.

There is no possibility that you pressed the wrong button when "locking" the door, and didn't notice what was happening?
 
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One thing nobody has thought about....... you can auto open/close windows from your key fob (programmed through the Easy Connect). See p101 on the MY13.pdf at the top of the forum.

There is no possibility that you pressed the wrong button when "locking" the door, and didn't notice what was happening?

You obviously didn't read the first post :p

The key was in an empty bedside table draw all night. So I've not caught it or activated in error.
 
No, I saw that.

What I was trying to say, did you unlock the car after locking it, or perhaps pressed the unlock instead of lock, sending the windows into "down mode"?

I'm not tarring you with my own "oldie" brush, but quite often when I'm a few yards from the car I can't remember locking it!!!!:confused: so I do it again. If that happened, and you pressed the wrong button??

If you did it was obviously an error, and in reality there's no way you are going to remember that possibility. But a thought to keep in mind should it ever happen again.

I've deactivated that option, as I can never envisage it being useful.
 
No, I saw that.

What I was trying to say, did you unlock the car after locking it, or perhaps pressed the unlock instead of lock, sending the windows into "down mode"?

I'm not tarring you with my own "oldie" brush, but quite often when I'm a few yards from the car I can't remember locking it!!!!:confused: so I do it again. If that happened, and you pressed the wrong button??

If you did it was obviously an error, and in reality there's no way you are going to remember that possibility. But a thought to keep in mind should it ever happen again.

I've deactivated that option, as I can never envisage it being useful.

Ahhh didn't see that angle, apologies!
Don't you have to press and hold the unlock button on the remote until the windows are all the way down though? I.e. a short press wouldn't result in the windows all the way down?
 
Thanks for everyone's input.

I've got another seat dealer looking at this right away. I'm of the suspicion that there must be water in the door or at the very least a heavy damp patch.

I'll update this thread when I know what the issue is confirmed as.
 
Very spooky indeed!

I would still turn off the auto up/down option in the media system to limit the chance of it happening again until you can find the problem :)
 
Ahhh didn't see that angle, apologies!
Don't you have to press and hold the unlock button on the remote until the windows are all the way down though? I.e. a short press wouldn't result in the windows all the way down?

But you do to get the mirrors to fold in. Again its only a thought. Do you do that or use the internal switch, or maybe leave them out?
 
This happened on my mk2 once, when I came to my car in the morning all the windows were open. Luckily it hadn't been raining and nothing was missing.

I put it down to having the keys in my pocket when I got in my house and as I sat down for a while the unlock button likely got depressed and I didn't notice.

Ever since the first thing I do when I get it in is remove the keys from my pocket and its not happened since.

I know you said the keys were in a draw but unless you put them straight in there as soon as you got in I'd say its likely the unlock button was accidently pressed. Just my opinion :)