Hawk12

No, actually you can. I just tried it again with the extra key out of range.

Open hatch as exiting car, hit the lock on the remote, go to hatch and place key in hatch, close hatch. Right as it latches you get the lock notification beep. Hatch will not open using hatch handle.

All this is easily done if you go to the hatch to unload items and leave the key sitting there or in a purse left there.

EDIT: Also confirmed with the second remote out of range AND with its battery removed. Still locks...

sjbearhunter

Non documented feature,
if you don't pay your car note someone will come pick the car up from you. =)

ELEVENS

The hardest Easter egg to find was the toolkit. Dang they hide that thing so well I was ready to tell the dealer I didn't get one.

Hint: Lift up the trunk decking you will see the spare. Now lift up the carpet just in front of the spare. Unclip the plastic panel. There you will find your Easter eggs (jack and toolkit).

ThunderDent

I started putting some change (I rarely use cash, but try to keep some quarters for parking meters handy) in the ashtray area. That worked for a while, until I got a dime caught underneath the retractable door. Its gone, never to be seen again. The door still works thank goodness.

I also lost a quarter in there. While the door is open there is a slight gap on either side. I tossed a quarter in the tray, it stood up on its side, found that gap and it dropped somewhere down into the car console!

I try to keep the car nice, so that sucked. So I just stopped using it for that all together.

Plasticar

In college, I had several Hondas that had a drop down "pocket" on the left side of the steering column about the size of a cupped hand. You could easily hold over $5 in change there. It didn't rattle around, and didn't clutter up the car. I wish every one had that. It was a great idea. Kind of like the owners manual under the column.

Hawk12

What about that hook on the passenger side footwell under the shifter? I found it, but have no clue what it's for...

Mississippi Birdman

It's there onto which a lady can strap her purse strings so her purse doesn't move all over the place.

Otto Man

More of a Emu Egg
How neat is it we get a nice electric air pump for filling our low tires we become alerted to by our low tire air pressure alarm thingy.
I also don't like that I found the tool that removes the lug nut "covers" AFTER I was done changing out summer to winter wheel/tires. I had no idea about that one.
I'll thinjk of more.
Make this a sticky for our Q5's please.
Oh and regarding the bright "red fog light" we have around back. Sure it's bright, but don't you feel like getting back to EVERY Volvo 840 (and after) that drove around with their fog lights on all of the time. These folks blinded us with bright red lights for centuries. Payback is hell.

Zigaroo

Another non documented feature,

On the driver side, press really hard on the pedal on the right and the Q5 will go very fast........LoL


A good one, as we all know, is you can set a speed limit alarm via the MMI, but you can also set another temporary limit. While driving at lower speed, example city limit or school zone, press and hold the "SET" button (the one on the left) in the dash speed meter. That will set Alarm2. This will warn you if you fo over your limit and possibly save you a police ticket.

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JohnBoyToo

ok, your forgiven

mine are driving lights since I put nice white xenon matched bulbs in them

and no, never ever turn the rear ones on = they are there for you snow bound folks so the heat from them can melt the snow off and the snowplow behind you doesn't run you over


and. as others have stated, it's a coin holder !!! but ever since we got the tune in the wife's Q the coins fly out the back when she takes off !!!!