[dcw]

There's a few threads on this - it's just a pretty fragile and unreliable system, I'm afraid. I believe it's to do with water ingress and corrosion of wiring and they system was modified on newer models.

I had the rear passenger door handle changed under warranty; passenger side and boot are fine, but now the rear driver's door works about 75% of the time and the driver's door itself works once in a blue moon!

Not something I shall bother with in future unless it happens to be on the next car - it's not really any effort to press a button. After all I have to do that with the S40, and with the 480 even put the key in the door and turn it!!

David