Unintended acceleration

[Dan DiBiase]

Funny you should mention that. My wife left the lights on when she took my A4 to work last week (apparently
ignoring the loud droning sound when she opened the driver's door!) and of course, the battery was drained 
when she came out 10 hours later. Her first thought was to get to the jumper cables in the trunk. But the
electric trunk release, wouldn't! Neither would the electric release in the driver's door. She ended up crawling
in through the folding rear seat and pulling the emergency release from inside.

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





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From: LL - NY <larrycleung at gmail.com>
To: Dan DiBiase <d_dibiase at yahoo.com>
Sent: Fri, October 23, 2009 11:48:40 AM
Subject: Re: Unintended acceleration

AND, what's with the stupid trunk (hatch, in the case of Mom's Passat Wagon) non-release?

Sad to say but true, the two button RF remote for my S6 works way better than the 3 button switch-key for my Mom's 6 year newer Passat. Go figure. 

LL - NY


On Fri, Oct 23, 2009 at 11:33 AM, Dan DiBiase <d_dibiase at yahoo.com> wrote:


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From: LL - NY <larrycleung at gmail.com>
>To: Dan DiBiase <d_dibiase at yahoo.com>
>Cc: Louis-Alain Richard <laraa at sympatico.ca>; quattro at audifans.com
>Sent: Fri, October 23, 2009 9:38:28 AM
>Subject: Re: Unintended acceleration
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>>FWIW, this whole "keyless" start thing is pretty stupid. Is the whole idea such that one can press a big red button that says "Start" like you're a fighter jock or something? Since you sort of need the key around anyway, why not still use it? And Toyota's (and I'm sure others, the industry lawyers saw to that to make sure that these cars with "Start" buttons don't become the next Pinto or Police Interceptor") 3 second delay. Why not put a big red "Kill Switch" on the dash like on proper race cars (and industrial machines) too? It'll add to the image. (of a Camry, sheesh). 
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>Another lets fix what wasn't broken thing. I guess it's not the providence of just the Germans now?
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>(rant off)
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>As for the sensitive Buick remote fob vs. Audi, IMHO, sometimes it seems that the Audi fob has no sensitivity at all ;-)
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>Yeah, the push-start is certainly an answer to a question nobody asked. And I agree about the Audi fob, perhaps it
>>is. I have had to do the mouth-open-with-the-fob-under-the-chin trick more with this car than any other I've owned
>that had keyless entry. ;-)
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>Dan D
>'04 A4 1.8Tq MT-6
>Central NJ USA
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