samsj

It didn't work for a week. Then it started working!

NorthwestB9

I found a weird bug. I can reliably open the trunk with my foot. I just tap the car lightly with my foot on the right or left edge of where the license plate is and it’ll open up about 95% of the time.

But here’s an odd thing I discovered. If you open the trunk with your foot, the doors will refuse to unlock by sticking your hand behind the door handles. It’ll unlock with the key fob, but not with just the hand. If I don’t open the trunk with my foot, the doors open just fine.

blassus

I always use my foot to open the trunk and never have had to use my key fob to unlock the doors. You might want to get that checked out.

Dave788

Ditto, had a work event today and kicked under the trunk to open it with the key in my suit pocket, put what I needed there, closed it, and was able to unlock the back driver side door with just my hand no problem.

fixpoint

Me too. I just had my car serviced last week for the airbag recall, and they also replaced the trunk sensor as mine would not open after the car had been parked more than 10 minutes or so. Now it works all the time, with the exception when the car is parked for several days, but that is by design per the user manual as it disables some functions to save on the battery - same reason why door handle unlocking doesn’t work in the same scenario.

dmahon

It drove me mad for weeks - sometimes it would open, other times not. Mostly not. I was browsing audiworld one day and ended up watching a youtube video, and if I do what this guy does, the straight in kick, it works every singe time (that it is supposed to work)

securityguy

Mine has worked flawlessly every time. Dealer showed me exactly what this guy posted when I bought my car.

vgt

I actually prefer the requirement for a deliberate straight-in straight-out kick. We have a '17 Explorer as well, and sometimes just walking by the back of the car too closely will trigger it. Not fun in a garage when the car is backed up near the wall.

Digitoxin

When you have tried all methods of kicking under the car to get the trunk to open, and it will not. I found that unplugging it underneath the bumper where the connector is to a Box and waiting a little bit then reconnect in it, it worked every time after that. I was very happy to see it work again

dseag2

Good to know. I've had my A4 for over 5 years and have yet to get it work consistently so I just gave up. I'll try this.