SF Gate: Freak fire traps man inside Audi/Battery failure a p ossible cause

[Larry C Leung]

Safety is safety, it has no age. This is very interesting and disturbing.
I believe that the front locks on the car are mechanical both inside and
out, but the back seat really does present a potential problem.

LL - NY

On Mon, 14 Jan 2002 14:29:23 -0500 "Beatty, Robert" <BeattyR at ummhc.org>
writes:
>Hmmm interesting....
>
>A few weeks ago, I finally got around to moving my 86 5ktq sedan from
>where
>it had been parked and locked for the past 3 months.  The battery was
>quite
>dead and I discovered that I could NOT unlock the rear doors manually.
> I
>didnt think much of it and just replaced the battery and let the power
>locks
>work correctly.  Anyone know of a reason why the rear doors wouldn't
>unlock
>with a dead or disconnected battery?  I didnt have a problem with the
>front
>doors because I used the key for both sides.
>
>Wonder if there might be a recall of some sort on this??? or are the
>cars
>waaaaaay too old for that now?
>
>Rob
>
>86 5ktq
>89 200tqa
>
>
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