RatLabGuy
You look like a monkey and smell like one too
- Joined
- May 18, 2005
- Location
- Churchville, MD
yep. a coworker has a couple year old Audi. Battery died. Late on a Friday, only a few of us around. He got the door open (somehow). No big deal, has cables in the trunk.Hate to be a topper but I got one worse than that.
A co-worker has a new Audi. Somehow the battery died at only 6 months old. Whatever. Its a Saturday and while covered by warranty he doesnt want to be stuck at the office. Wants to drive home and let them deal with it Monday. Ok, Ill jump you off. Key fob doesnt work with dead battery. Use the key. Puts key in door and no joy. He looks confused. Hes a millennial and not exactly mechanically inclined. Here Ill help. Key in slot turn and....Mother of GOD the stupidity. It isnt a mechanical lock. You can instantly feel it. The key just turns an electroswitch that activates the power lock mechanism.
The solution ended up entailing removing a tire and an inner fender to get jumper cables onto the battery to open the door....or so Im told. I checked out before all that.
Then... oh, shit, the trunk is only electrically actuated. Can't get in from inside the trunk, can't get it open from outside.
Not sure what he solution was but there was a lot of head shaking.
Same young guy from my previous story got in my old Toy truck one day in summer. It was hot, my window was already down. I said, roll down the window, AC don't work.
He stared at the panel for a good 30 seconds, confused. "How? There's no switch?"
Smack my head. Use the fucking handle. (manual windows). He almost broke it off trying to pull on it like a door lever.
"Wow, I feel like I'm living in such an old time, moving a window this way."
I'm thinking, Jesus kid, I was in high school when this truck was made.