# Interior lights and emergency calls + Water ingress **Source:** https://vwcaliforniaclub.com/threads/interior-lights-and-emergency-calls-water-ingress.60448/ **Posts:** 9 --- ### — 2025-11-23T09:47:23+0100 (Nov 23, 2025) Last two drives this kept happening, emergency calls starting on their own, interior lights turning on and off without us touching anything! Anyone else experiencing this phenomenon!? Unable to upload video as it says wrong file type, is there a way to upload a video? Here's a link to the video --- ### L — 2025-11-24T09:57:22+0100 (Nov 24, 2025) I've seen others mention that dust or muck on the lights can trigger them as they are touch sensitive, give them a really good clean and see what happens. --- ### — 2025-11-24T10:31:39+0100 (Nov 24, 2025) > [Lakes\_Puma said:](/goto/post?id=766321) > > I've seen others mention that dust or muck on the lights can trigger them as they are touch sensitive, give them a really good clean and see what happens. > > Click to expand... Yes I wondered that, but surely this wouldn't trigger the emergency call to start and also the light on door open button to randomly come on off too? --- ### M — 2025-11-24T10:44:28+0100 (Nov 24, 2025) I have partly the same problem, my lights turn on off randomly. Rest of the buttons don't work at all. This might be caused by water coming into the console via the antenna. I think the dealer put a high pressure hose on the antenna and some water seeped through. It's drying very very slowly and the problem seems to slowly solve itself. If not, I need to go back tot the dealer. --- ### — 2025-11-24T10:56:52+0100 (Nov 24, 2025) > [Martin77 said:](/goto/post?id=766329) > > I have partly the same problem, my lights turn on off randomly. Rest of the buttons don't work at all. This might be caused by water coming into the console via the antenna. I think the dealer put a high pressure hose on the antenna and some water seeped through. It's drying very very slowly and the problem seems to slowly solve itself. If not, I need to go back tot the dealer. > > Click to expand... Where did they see water coming in, that is not good as imagine in a few years time the rust/electrical damage caused!? --- ### M — 2025-11-24T11:24:28+0100 (Nov 24, 2025) They didn't. I discovered it on the way home when we picked the van up from the dealership. There were a few waterdroplets in the lights. The water is slowly evaporating, everthing works after that and if it is a one-time thing, I don't expect problems in the future. If it persists, the dealer probably has to replace the whole unit. --- ### D — 2025-11-24T22:13:34+0100 (Nov 24, 2025) I had the same problem in a Skoda enyaq which has the same panel. In the end all interior lights stopped working. It was changed under warranty. Managed to cancel the calls in time before they were answered… just! --- ### — 2025-11-24T22:24:14+0100 (Nov 24, 2025) > [DevonGuy said:](/goto/post?id=766388) > > I had the same problem in a Skoda enyaq which has the same panel. In the end all interior lights stopped working. It was changed under warranty. Managed to cancel the calls in time before they were answered… just! > > Click to expand... It also seems to turn on all the interior lights when locked as I locked and walked away earlier all lights definitely off and came back 10mins later and all the interior lights were on. When I hit unlock they went off! It's going in on Friday so will add this issue to the list --- ### — 2025-12-18T15:32:58+0100 (Dec 18, 2025) Further update, took it to the dealer and they said yes console needs replacing, I now have to assume that was caused by water ingress which is what I now suspect due to the water dripping from it and the amount of water behind the hatch I have just opened. We have not put the pop top up more than a few times just to check it works as not actually camped in it yet - supposed to be at Christmas and definitely haven;t put it up in the rain so can only assume there is a big water leak from the rain somewhere. Has anyone else experienced this? ![20251218_120137.jpg](images/20251218_120137-jpg.142965 "20251218_120137.jpg") ![20251218_130712.jpg](images/20251218_130712-jpg.142966 "20251218_130712.jpg") ![20251218_130723.jpg](images/20251218_130723-jpg.142967 "20251218_130723.jpg") ---