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What tells the car that a door is open?
Posted: Sun May 11, 2008 9:20 pm
by searider
Sometimes the dashboard display tells me that the drivers door is open when it isn't!
Is there a switch in the door that might be a bit dodgy.
Can't see an old fashioned plunger type switch in the door shut.
Posted: Sun May 11, 2008 9:26 pm
by Philws4
AFAIK the switch is built into the door catch and can only be accesed with the door trim off. Might be worth spraying some WD40 into the catch and opening/closing the door quickliy a few times in the hope that it frees it up
Posted: Mon May 12, 2008 10:30 am
by PetrolDave
Philws4 wrote:AFAIK the switch is built into the door catch and can only be accesed with the door trim off.
Correct.
The offical Audi position is that you have to replace the whole catch when the micro-switch goes faulty (they don't sell the switch separately) but several people I know have been able to adjust the switch and get it working again. Cost = zero, just some time to get the trim off the door and remove the lock.
Posted: Thu May 22, 2008 2:35 pm
by neckarsulm
Maplin electronics sell these microswitches too.
There is a US thread on the web somewhere - bloody stupid idea!