Another Audi feature

[Dan DiBiase]

I'd still like to understand how this feature caused the driver's door to lock while the car was standing still.

 Dan D
'04 A4 1.8Tq MT-6
Central NJ USA





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From: "Bares, Vittorio" <Vittorio.Bares at nuance.com>
To: Richard Thomsen <rajemez at valornet.com>; quattro at audifans.com
Sent: Tuesday, December 23, 2008 7:30:32 PM
Subject: RE: Another Audi feature

Someone in management was involved in that decision, driven by marketing
and an end of the year bonus. The engineering and user interface teams
were screaming and yelling Nooooooo!

BTW - what part of NM does it snow in?

Vittorio -


-----Original Message-----
From: quattro-bounces at audifans.com [mailto:quattro-bounces at audifans.com]
On Behalf Of Richard Thomsen
Sent: Tuesday, December 23, 2008 12:11 PM
To: quattro at audifans.com
Subject: Another Audi feature

This one I could do without!

I moved the snow in front of my cars, and then moved the cars forward so

that I could remove the snow around where they were sitting. I left the 
car running while I got rid of the snow behind, so the car could warm 
up. When I went to move the car back, it had locked all its doors while 
it sat there running! Great. Now my keys to the car and house are inside

the locked car, and I cannot get into the locked house! Great feature! 
(Fortunately, there was someone inside the house, so I could get the 
other set of keys.)

This happened with my wife's Audi (2000 A6) before, when the door locks 
were frozen as well, but I thought it was a freak case. Now I see it was

all part of the plan!

Who came up with this idea?

    Richard
    New Mexico