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This morning when I opened my door the handle felt a bit stiff. When I closed the door it bounced open again. The latch wasn't catching. The window dropped as it should but the exterior door handle felt like it wasn't attached to anything. As it had rained overnight and then frozen I assumed that something in the mechanism had frozen.
I then held the door shut with the heater on full and afete 15 minutes it started to work again.
Is this an isolated issue or is it common.
I'm now going to ring my local dealer to try and get it sorted :no:

 

[speary]

All 5's have got the problem with the stickig door handles. Sometimes when you open the door the handle doesn't retract, and then when you pull the door closed it just bounces back out again and doesn't close.

Speary, was this happening even though your handle was fully retracted?

Yes, it was as thought the handle wasnt connected to anything. It seemed to go back to normal when it warmed up
Perhaps some liberal greasing of the internal mechanism may prevent it happening again. Thing is I dont fancy taking off the door trim to do it

 

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I am getting sick to the back teeth of my window being frozen and the door not closing. I now drive to work with it closed on the latch but not fully closed as I am sick of pouring warm water on the bottom of the window to unfreeze it. Bloody frameless windows :thumbsdown:

Have a look at my previous post regarding unsticking the window with an old credit card. Works every time

 

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Car into dealer to fix knocking noise so I explained about the sticking door handle when its icy.
They fixed it by removing the handle and filing a bit off the mechanism and then lubricating it. Worked fine this morning. Apparently this is a known problem and fix within Audi.

They also fitted the exhaust trims I bought from them for FREE

 

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IIRC there is a fix for the faulty internal mechanism. Go to your dealer and politely insist that the fix it