MOVING TO THE DAILY BANTER TO UPDATE YOU ALL ON PROGRESS.

Very touched by such kind offers of help guys!

Here's the current plan...

,,,try to get a VW dealer from Newton Stewart to go to look at it. They're only 26 miles away and the nearest Audi dealer is 52 miles away. If they can fix it, I'll book a one-way hire car to collect when I fly in to Glasgow from Bristol on Wednesday night. Drive to Stranraer, dump the hire car for father in law to return next morning and drive the S8 back in the early hours of Thursday.

Let's see how that works out....

I've merged the threads Jim so it's all on here now +++
Good luck with the plan - it's like the plot of some movie. . .
Instead of "Taken" you could call it "Left Behind"

Lol :)

Hope everything works out Jim, as another option could the breakdown folks recover it to A4Audi for you?

Also you are probably aware if your FIL intends driving, the hire company will need to see his licence for insurance purposes when you pick up the car

cheers

Brian

Recovery to A4 Audi is an option under consideration

Latest update - the car is open! :)

My father in law has a local autoelectrician who managed to get the boot open (it had stopped even opening that) and "b******d aboot" with the pump and opened the doors. Key still doesn't work though, so he's taken that away to check it out.

So I'm standing by with the spare key ready to stick that in express post if the other key is beyond mending.

Can anyone think what may have happened to explain the following sequence of events:

1. Car would not lock with 'blipper' but had done so a few times earlier the same morning
2. But it did lock with the key
3. An hour or so later, it would not unlock with 'blipper' or key
4. But the boot did open OK with the key
5. When trying to open the doors with the key, you could hear the central locking pump motor going
5. Eventually, the boot didn't open with the key (until the guy "b******d aboot" with the key and blipper)
6. Car doors opened when the pump was fidddled with, but key still won't open doors
7. BTW the alarm doesn't seem to arm when the doors are locked with the key.

Brian - you are such an honest person! FIL lives a mile or so from the drop off point - we'd planned to not even let them know he wasn't me - if you see what I mean

I did notice on EKTA that the boot and petrol flap were on a seperate air supply from the doors ,I wonder if all he done was swap over the 2 feeds and got the doors to open

Now that's a possibility I suppose.

Next update - the car started, but the key still won't open the doors. So now away to the workshop....

...next thrilling installment soon