No-start condition

[Steve Mills]

Try locking and unlocking via the driver's door. It sounds like the alarm
may have activated- that would explain the non-start.

Steve

On Tue, Oct 16, 2012 at 8:26 PM, Richard Thomsen <rajemez at windstream.net>wrote:

> The vehicle is a 2000 A6 quattro. My wife drove it to work on Friday,
> and parked it at 1100 hours. After that, there was a sever hailstorm -
> small hail, but lots of it (4" deep in some places). When I came by at
> about 1500 hours, I noticed that its 4-ways were blinking. I figured
> that the alarm system was activated, so I deactivated it by using the
> remote to unlock and then lock the car. The 4-ways kept blinking, even
> after I tried it several times. So I opened the car and turned on and
> off the 4-way switch. This stopped the blinking for a while, but it
> started again. I thought the battery might be low, so I then decided to
> start it, but it would not start. Even with a jumper, it would not start.
>
>         I contacted Kwik Lube, and they came down with their machine to
> read
> the codes. They said that their machine detected 77 modules in the car,
> but could not communicate with any of them, so they could get no codes.
> They said that I would have to take it to the dealer to see what is up
> with it.
>
>         We think that the problem is the security system not letting the
> car
> start, but cannot seem to disable it.
>
>         Ideas?
>
>         Thank you for your assistance.
>
>                 Richard Thomsen
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