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In a message dated 01/15/2002 1:40:18 PM Central Standard Time,
audi at mediaone.net writes:

You can have the opposite, the drivers door locks and the other 3 don't.  I
saw that on a 5K 2 weeks ago.  I found the vacuum motor was disconnected.
The owner told me he brought it to the local Audi dealer because the battery
was dead and it would start.  Audi disconnected the motor because they "heard
it can run down the battery."
Jan Lahtonen
> On that other note of why did some companies (Audi etc.) use pneumatic
> instead of electric locks?
>
> 1. it either works or doesn't - no "3 doors lock and one doesn't"
> effect.
>