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#32
8th August 2011, 07:10 AM
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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.... 
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#33
8th August 2011, 07:22 AM
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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"
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#35
8th August 2011, 09:33 AM
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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
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#37
8th August 2011, 11:38 AM
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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.
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#38
8th August 2011, 11:51 AM
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8th August 2011, 12:39 PM
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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
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