Went out, windows were down and trunk was popped

**kpatz** · 05-11-2008 12:13 PM

This morning my wife asked me why my car windows were open, I say huh? I look, and they're all lowered. I went out to the car, tried the door, it was locked. Checked the trunk, it was unlatched. I grabbed my keys and closed everything up using the remote. I ask my wife, were you playing with the keyfob remote? I know the windows were closed just few minutes earlier.

So, I figure either my wife is keeping a straight face while claiming not to have been playing with the remote, or my car exhibited some strange malfunction. Any ideas?

It's an '02 A4 1.8T Quattro, and I did the VAG mod to allow opening/closing the windows via the keyfob remote. I didn't have my keys with me or in my pocket, so that rules out accidental triggering by me.

So, was it the wife, or a gremlin?

**topcat** · 05-11-2008 12:27 PM

This has happened to me after doing the VAG mod. Got rained in one night.

**47Ronin** · 05-11-2008 12:30 PM

happened to me one night - i held the key to close it all teh way up and the second it hit the top it all came back down - it raiend and fucked up my window controls :(

**AudiAdi** · 05-11-2008 01:04 PM

This happened to me before... Not because of the reasons above, but because I was sitting on my keyfob!

**vdubstreets** · 05-11-2008 01:23 PM

sometimes if a window rolls up it will sense something and roll back down. but i dont think that is what happened in this case.

**diagnosticator** · 05-11-2008 03:00 PM

Originally Posted by AudiAdi

This happened to me before... Not because of the reasons above, but because I was sitting on my keyfob!

Yes, this happened to me once also, due to the window via remote function. I am carefull not to keep my remote in a pocket that can get sat on now.

**diagnosticator** · 05-11-2008 03:07 PM

You accidently pressed the remote buttons while sitting on your remote. It takes an extended press to lower the windows, but a trunk unlatch only takes a quick press of the trunk release button. When you unlock the car with the remote, (that was the first thing that happened from the accidental remote button presses while sitting on the remote,) if you don't open a door within 30 seconds, the doors are relocked by the convienience system. That is why the car was locked when you discovered the windows down, and the trunk latch released. Capisce?
This is why the windows with remote are not activated in the US from the factory.

**kpatz** · 05-12-2008 08:53 AM

That's a good theory Diagnosticator, except for the fact that my keys were sitting on my dresser at the time. Nothing was pressing the remote. I had gone outside earlier to retrieve one of my cats who got out and I surely would have noticed if the windows were open then. 10 minutes later, my wife said they were open. The keys/keyfob wasn't touched or moved in that time.

**topcat** · 05-12-2008 08:59 AM

every now and then when i do use the key fob for lowering or raising windows; my driver's window will act up. When raising it, it acts as if the safety mechanism is working and the window rolls back down a few inches. I have to cycle up/down 3-4 times to get it to stay up. I've just all but quit using it because of this.

**A4ringedONE8T** · 05-12-2008 09:01 AM

Originally Posted by topcat

every now and then when i do use the key fob for lowering or raising windows; my driver's window will act up. When raising it, it acts as if the safety mechanism is working and the window rolls back down a few inches. I have to cycle up/down 3-4 times to get it to stay up. I've just all but quit using it because of this.

Thats from the window seals being dry and stiff, the window thinks something is in the window rather than just hitting the seal. My passenger window does the same thing, shits annoying!

**IronAudi** · 05-12-2008 12:48 PM

dude you have CATS, maybe they were wlking on your dresser, my cats sits on myu fridge to look at ppl, cats are everywhere

**kpatz** · 05-12-2008 02:19 PM

The cat theory is possible though my dresser top is cluttered enough that a cat isn't likely to jump up there. In fact, I don't remember any of my 4 cats ever jumping up on my dresser, though they jump on other things. Also, my dresser is on the opposite end of the house from the driveway and the remote generally doesn't work from that far away.

**diagnosticator** · 05-12-2008 02:28 PM

Originally Posted by kpatz

That's a good theory Diagnosticator, except for the fact that my keys were sitting on my dresser at the time. Nothing was pressing the remote. I had gone outside earlier to retrieve one of my cats who got out and I surely would have noticed if the windows were open then. 10 minutes later, my wife said they were open. The keys/keyfob wasn't touched or moved in that time.

If you are sure there is no way a remote was sat on etc, then the only other way I can think of is that somehow someone else's remote signals activated your windows and trunk release. Otherwise, this happens due to remotes in pockets 99.9 percent of the time. Can you account for all of the key remotes for your A4?