Re: Disabling Window controls w/ door lock key

["Kevin Krane" <kkrane@en.com>]

Your dealer should be able to "de-program" that feature, with the VAG Tool.
Where the heck do you park your car?  I thought I had it bad, worrying about
getting a door ding at work.


Kevin

2001 Jetta GLX . Black


----- Original Message -----
From: Chris Lefkaditis <ChrisLe@mindspring.com>
To: <jettaglx@igtc.com>
Sent: Monday, October 09, 2000 12:54 PM
Subject: Disabling Window controls w/ door lock key


> Recently my cars been a magnet for thieves while parked at work. It's been
> broken itno many times. Primarily they've either tried to jam a
screwdriver
> into the door keylock (3 times) or flat out ripping the entire door hadle
> assembly off (2 times)and sticking their hand into the hole and opening
the
> door. So far they've been thwarted by the alarm system (God bless Cliffor
> alarms)and have stolen nothing although one can see where they tried going
> for the radio.. Funny thing is almost every time my cars been broken into
> all my windows were found to be rolled down. I can only assume that
somehow
> the window roll down feature on the door's keylock is activated during the
> break in. If this is true does anybody know if there's a way to disable
this
> ability since I rarely use the feature anyway. Not that it means much
since
> they'll still get in by opening the door.
>
> BTW you would be surprised how easy it is to just rip the entire door
handle
> assembly right off the door.......
>
> Thanks in advance.
>
>