Keyless entry button on door handle not working

davesA8 · #1 10th October 2013, 01:00 PM

Hi, Recently bought my D3 A8 4.2TDI and noticed that the button on the rear nearside door will not operate the locking the other three are fine, any suggestions as to what the problem is likely to be? a complete door handle? or maybe just a new switch? and how difficult a job to fix? any help much appreciated, regards Dave

PsYcHe · #2 10th October 2013, 01:17 PM

Is the child lock turned on on that door? Not sure if it affects the locking button though.

If not, it's a door-card off job and swap the button for a new one (or replacement from A8parts).

davesA8 · #3 10th October 2013, 01:22 PM

Cheers Psyche, Will check that first,

PsYcHe · #4 10th October 2013, 02:04 PM

Ignore me... For some reason I was thinking of the button on the inside... I'll crawl back into my hole again.

Yes, your button has probably failed, I know that the previous owner of mine had to replace the rear offside one. It's still a doorskin off job I think.

47p2 · #5 12th October 2013, 06:24 AM

Door has to be stripped down, not a job for the DIY'er

Easier to lock the car using the next nearest button

Somerandomguy · #6 12th October 2013, 03:30 PM

Nah, it's a DIY job, i have done both front and rear and this was one of the first jobs when I got mine.

To replace the handles, you need to remove the door cards (buy a few spare clips before hand), remove the inner mounting plate, disconnect the wiring and door lock lnkage (this is the trickiest part) and loosen the retaining frame to extract the handle from the exterior. there is a post of mine on vwaudiforum with a couple of PDFs from ETKA. http://www.vwaudiforum.co.uk/forum/s...471#post789471

The hardest part was getting replacement handles, which I ended up buying from German ebay for a total of €110 for a set of all 4 in the correct colour. The search term I used was before the loss of the wildcard search: A8 Türgriff* (don't forget the umlaut on the u), and then just trawled through the search results looking for the tell-tale button.

I guess it took me about 2 hours per handle, and i think i only used a couple of different tools, a 10mm deep socket, a pry tool for the door card and some torx drivers (t30 or 27 and t15 i think)