Manual lock, just a single freaking lock on the driver's side? you must be kidding me

 
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AD's AvatarAD posted on
September 22, 2011, 4:11 am
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I was (unpleasantly) surprised by the fact that the ONLY mechanical
key is on the driver's door.
No keyhole on the passenger side, nothing on the 5th door of my 2003
A4 avant.
While the latter is expected having no redundancy in mechanical entry
is not
acceptable on what now is a $36k+ car

I have disconnected (both contacts on) the battery when I had skid
plates installed last weekend
(the engine skid plate in front rests on a SINGLE metal attachment
point on the radiator subframe, eesh Ingolstadt, provide decent
provisioning for the skid plate attachments
and/or fix the freaking oil pan with anything thicker and stronger
than paper). Now remote entry
does not work.

The procedure for the key reset provided in the owner's manual does
not work.
I'm pissed that I have only ONE way to get into the car now with no
backup whatsoever.
What if anything happens to that single driver's side lock when the
temps drop to around 18F??????

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AD's AvatarAD posted on
September 22, 2011, 2:28 pm
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Re: Manual lock, just a single freaking lock on the driver's side? you must be kidding me


It works in fact now that I've tried again tonight (with
the backup key in the ignition, not that it should've mattered).

still, the question remains why did audi pinch pennies
on the passenger side lock?

I do hope that the driver's side manual unlocking works without
problems
when everything freezes here and the issue of no redundancy
remains a hypothetical one.



 

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