The cold and door locks

[Maximo]

Had an odd problem this morning. The car was parked outside over night last night and had a frost covering. When I opened the front passengers door and closed it again the door just bounced open. As if the lock wasn't engaging. I tried the latch using a screw driver to put it into the locked position, it took a couple attempts for it to engage. Although when closing the door again it still wouldn't engage and lock. After about 5 minutes of the engine running making the car nice and warm the lock worked fine. No problems when I got work and parked up. Anyone else had this before?

[jd_hants]

mine did that this morning. I always clear the frost from the windows with hot (from the tap not from the kettle) water. I just poured more hot water directly on the handle and the lock mechanism and it warmed it sufficiently to allow it to lock properly.

[Maximo]

I don't like the idea of pouring warm water onto the door handles every time it's a little cold over night. There must be a beter fix around then that. So is this a common problem on all Audi's? I would expect better for a car costing £60k new.

[rol]

I had the same problem the other morning on the driver side door so now I open the passenger side door its more sheltered and doesn`t seem to get frosted the same and start the car with heater going for 5 min untill defrosted and then open the drivers door.

[Virdee Autos]

The locks are quite notorious for water ingress, and then they do get weak, so just bear that in mind too.

[MartynC]

A little WD 40 repels the water and works fine for me. I think with remote locking we all forget to attend to things like that accasionally as a preventive measure.

MartynC

[kaisersolsay]

My passenger front did the same during the cold snap last week. Hasnt doen it since though.

[jd_hants]

Had to do the same this morning. Same door cauing the problem too. Will give it a spray with WD later see if that stop it 'sticking'

[Wolverine]

Happened to my drivers side door. Remote managed to open the door locks, but handle wouldnt open the door. Gave the door a couple of hard bangs and that worked for me.

So WD40 sprayed into the door lock ... is this the preventative solution?

[jd_hants]

I just thought that as it is a water repellent it 'should' help stop moisture from collecting on the dock lock mechanism and freezing. I doubt it will stop it altogether but might just be enough to make it free up easier.