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Old 6th January 2014, 10:27 AM
HPsauce HPsauce is offline
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Or do you just point a hairdryer at the latch for a while?
Worked for me.
A couple of minutes at full blast and it's back to full chirping, flashing and illuminated glory!
I'll go back and thoroughly warm it up for a few more minutes to really dry the area out. Didn't even take any covers off just blew hot air at the latch and surrounding small gaps.

I wasn't sure if I needed to clear any codes with VCDS to restore operation - obviously not.
Would people recommend a liberal squirt of WD40 as well, or just leave it alone?
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