[s-cars] Central door lock system won't pass state inspection

[chris chambers]

Tom,

I recommend you start by inspecting the wires that pass from the car's body through the door jamb into the driver's door.
It's quite common for these to fray/break which could be causing your symptoms.


HTH

Chris


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On Tue, 5/27/14, Tom Rodriguez <trodri69 at gmail.com> wrote:

 Subject: [s-cars] Central door lock system won't pass state inspection
 To: s-car-list at audifans.com
 Date: Tuesday, May 27, 2014, 11:07 AM
 
 Please HELP!  My central door
 locking system is malfunctioning and will not
 pass state inspection which is due this week.  I
 searched the FAQs and
 recent discussion topics on Quattroworld for a fix, but to
 no avail.
 
  
 
 Symptoms (for the past week or so): From outside the car the
 doors can be
 locked and unlocked with the key as intended.  From
 inside the car the door
 lock buttons on the driver's and passenger's doors do
 nothing.  Occasionally
 when driving, all the doors will lock if I lower or raise
 the windows, and
 sometimes they seem to lock spontaneously due to no
 discernable action on my
 part.  When this happens I am locked inside the car and
 the only way to get
 out is to lower either the driver's or passenger's side
 window and reach out
 to unlock the door from the outside (this will not pass
 inspection).
 
  
 
 Another symptom which may or may not be related is that the
 vacuum pump for
 the central locking system runs on for about 30 seconds
 whenever the doors
 are locked or unlocked.  This has been happening for
 about a year.
 
  
 
 Any insights or BTDTs will be greatly appreciated.  The
 car is going to the
 shop tomorrow and I'd like to have the wisdom of this group
 before I get my
 mechanic's diagnosis (and his cost estimate!)
 
  
 
 Tom Rodriguez
 
 '95 S6
 
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