Being the vehicle owner of a modern Audi R8 provides us several advantages, actually, recent vehicles give access to an more and more notable number of product features. They will allow you to gain in comfort, multimedia or security. Today we are gonna look at an option that is meant to make you feel safe in your automobile, the automatic closing of the doors. This option may be deactivated without a reason, so we’re going to find out how to activate auto locking on your Audi R8. To accomplish this, we will first look at the functioning of this option and how it works, then, in a second part, how to reactivate the automatic closing of the doors of your car.
What is the automatic locking or closing on a Audi R8?
Before we teach you how to activate the automatic lock of your Audi R8, we will look at the efficacy of this features. In actual fact, the number of carjacking is frequently raising, and our Audi R8 is an area where we tend to feel safe. Nevertheless, when stopping at a red light, at a stop sign or in traffic jams, one can feel vulnerable to aggression, it is with this in mind that the brands have released this option. In most cases there is a door lock button that permits you to close and open the doors from the cabin, but this functionality automatically locks the doors of your car when you exceed a certain speed or a certain time after turning on the engine. The benefit is that you no longer have to be anxious about this gesture to assure optimum security.
How do I activate the automatic closing of the doors on my Audi R8?
Unfortunately, it can happen that due to factory defaults, electronic failures, bad handling, this option can be disabled, we will now look at the two techniques to let you to activate the automatic lock on your Audi R8.
- How to activate the automatic locking / closing of the doors on a car: The lock button
The easiest solution if you are in case your automatic door closure no longer works, is to turn on the ignition (on some series you will also need to have the engine running) and soon come and hold down the door lock button on your car for a few seconds until you listen to an audible sign and, dependent on the year of your Audi R8, the turn indicators that are turned on. This solution should be efficient in most cases to activate the automatic door lock on your Audi R8.
How to activate the automatic door lock on my Audi R8: Through the computer
Finally, a more complex solution but which can be connected to a factory problem or a power failure on your car. To reactivate the automatic door lock on your Audi R8, you will be able to go through your diagnostic socket. You will need to have a diagnostic tool and navigate through the menus to change the linked option in the “sash menu”. Nevertheless, this is only advised for people with some mechanics knowledges and we encourage that you stop by your specialist to do this.
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