Re: A4 remote locks

[Porsray@aol.com]

Pulled a similar lack-of-brains incident years ago in my '76 911.  Had a 
habit of leaving key in ignition while car was in garage.  Forgot about this,
couldn't find key in kitchen whre I dump out my pockets after coming home,
grabbed spare key.  Did some cleaning on car, left spare key driver's seat.

Somehow, pressed down on door lock and slammed door; ended up with
doors locked, one key in ignition, other on driver's seat.  Took several
hours
of "coat hanger engineering" to get back in car.

Ray Calvo (porsray@aol.com)
1990 Coupe Quattro


In a message dated 97-02-05 17:46:41 EST, you write:

 
 George Economou writes:
 
 >Be careful with the trunk lock.  I found out the hard way that it is 
 >easy to lock yourself out when playing with the trunk.  It happened to
 >me one day while the A4 was running.  I stepped out to get something 
 >out of the trunk. By the time I got back to the driver's door, I was 
 >locked out.  According  the dealer, this can happen.  I can't 
 >characterize the entire event in detail, but I have been able to 
 >duplicate it once or twice.  Good luck.  Any similar experiences?
 
 
 Well, not in the A4, but my Dad and I have locked ourselves out of our
 Coupes.
 
 My father got out of his car, pulled on the trunk release switch, then
 closed and locked the door.  He went to the trunk, put his keys in it
 to grab a package, then proceeded to close the trunk (dooooh!!!).
 Had to use a coat hanger to open the driver's side door and get into
 the trunk.  Car wasn't running.
 
 I locked myself out with the car running, though.  I needed to load some
 items into the car, so I opened the passenger side door.  Since it was hot,
 I started the car from the passenger side, to run the A/C.  After I finished
 loading the items into the back seat, I closed the passenger side door,
 first locking it.  I did not realize my mistake until midway through the 
 closing arc of the door.  Of course, due to Murphy's law, I was too late to 
 stop the door from closing.  So, the car was idling its happy little heart 
 out, while my heart had just dropped into my left foot.  :(  Fortunately, I 
 had opened the sunroof after starting the car (thank God heat rises!).  I 
 was able to remove it and lean through it to get to the door lock.
 
 Never been locked out, since.  :)
 
 Later,
 Eric
 '85 Coupe GT