Klaus--believe me, water will get into those locks from a car wash, the kind we have over here. You have horizontal jets that spray violently against the sides, and it forces water into the locks. I've parked it afterwards and had both front door locks frozen solid the next morning. The lock on the back door (wagon) was not frozen because that has a little protective flap over it. I had to crawl in the back and over the seats to hit the lock button on the dash. This is what happens when one of your remote quits working and your wife at work has the only one that works. Interesting about that remote though. I ordered two new ones, took the one remote that did work and one of the new ones, turned the key five times and then depressed the buttons on both remotes at the same time, but I could never get both of them programmed to the same frequency. You could do one, or the other, but not together. Dick

P.S. Do you know when Volvo switched from the old AWD system with the faulty bevel gear to the newer and supposedly better? A Volvo service manager I asked was vague about it. It apparently wasn't when they made the body change in 2001, but sometime later. A friend of mine is thinking of buying a 2002 AWD but wants to avoid the one with bevel gear problems.