No-start condition

[Greville Bowles]

I'm no expert on cars of any sort, but my VAG
experience tells me your battery is pooched. Check
that before you spend money on anything else. When
VAG products (at least the ones I'm familiar with)
have a battery on the way out they behave as
though they are possessed. VAG electrical
gremlins, YUCK!

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Ralston CanSafe 
525 Glengarry Cres. 
Fergus, Ontario N1M 2W8 
Phone: (519) 787-1297 Ext. 39 
Fax: 1-800-669-2392 
E-mail: gbowles at cansafe.com 
www.cansafe.com 
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Date: Tue, 16 Oct 2012 18:26:20 -0600
From: Richard Thomsen <rajemez at windstream.net>
To: quattro at audifans.com
Subject: No-start condition
Message-ID: <507DFB2C.1020604 at windstream.net>
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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