Speaking of remotes...

[Danton J.A. Cardoso]

Still, why does VAG group make weak remotes!?!??!?!?!

On Fri, Feb 1, 2008 at 10:26 PM, Tyson Varosyan <tigran at tigran.com> wrote:
> Thanks for the only decent answer on this forum.
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>  Guys, all jokes aside - the first few were funny - but it would have been
>  nice if of the 15 replies that I got, more than one was actually useful.
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>  Tyson Varosyan
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>  From: thejimrose [mailto:thejimrose at gmail.com]
>  Sent: Friday, February 01, 2008 8:47 AM
>  To: quattro at audifans.com; tigran at tigran.com
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> Subject: Re: Speaking of remotes...
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> tyson - you can try to improve the range, the awful remote distance is well
>  documented. there are a few writeups on audiworld and audizine that address
>  this, and there was a TSB from audi on increasing the antenna range.
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>  my 98's alarm brain is under the rear seat [i think] so i ran an extended
>  antenna wire up along the c pillar and along the top edge of the rear glass.
>  thinking that higher would be better. well it's not, much. i've read of guys
>  having good luck running the wire along the insude of the rear bumper. some
>  folks were able to increase range to a few hundred feet.
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>  Message: 9
>  Date: Thu, 31 Jan 2008 17:54:55 -0800
>  From: "Tyson Varosyan" <tigran at tigran.com>
>  Subject: Speaking of remotes...
>  To: <quattro at audifans.com>
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>  Guys, I was just talking about the remotes.. My A4 remotes (on both cars)
>  are the WORST remotes that I have ever seen! I have to be practically within
>  kicking distance of my car before the stupid thing works! This is the case
>  on my 98 and was the case on my 05. What is the deal with this? Is there any
>  way to increase the range of these things to about 100ft or so?
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Danton J.A. Cardoso