Another Audi feature

[Mark R]

Thanks Larry.

In my pocket, the buttons get pressed on my GM remotes (Escalade and Vette
use the same fobs, basically)... and it is the panic button that
often inadvertently gets hit.

Of course, with my Audi remotes, that NEVER happened.  Better by design....
literally.

Mark Rosenkrantz

On Tue, Dec 23, 2008 at 11:57 PM, LL - NY <larrycleung at gmail.com> wrote:

> Ditto on Mom's 2001.5 Passat. Dumb feature IMHO, and Mark, sorry about your
> Dad.
>
> FWIW, my 95.5 UrS will lock itself if you unlock the door with the remote
> but don't actually open either any door or the trunk. I haven't timed how
> long it takes, but it can be annoying. I don't know
> why marketing/engineering think that the decisions of the owner/operators
> need to be automated,
> it's like Microsoft all over again. :-(
>
> LL - NY
>
> On 12/23/08, George Tur <getur at optonline.net> wrote:
> >
> > On Tuesday 23 December 2008 21:39, Dan DiBiase wrote:
> > > I'd still like to understand how this feature caused the driver's door
> to
> > > lock while the car was standing still.
> > >
> >
> > ****************
> > I.m not sure how it's supposed to work if the car is running, but on my
> > wife's
> > 2006 Passat if you unlock the door and then don't open it within a
> certain
> > period of time, say 60 seconds, it relocks itself. Supposed to be an anti
> > oops feature where you inadvertently unlock the door but then walk away.
> >
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