I just remembered another quirk.
My friend owns a late 90's jetta with the standard german electrical problems.
One day, he was driving along the highway in the rain, when his car alarm went off as if the security system detected an intruder. The lights go apeshit and his horn blasts away. It was so noticeable and loud, that he said cars were pulling over to the side of the road thinking he was an ambulance or a police car in a hurry. Eventually he pulls over, to find that the car's security system locked itself to prevent the non-existent break-in. So, he was locked in his berserk jetta on the side of the road in a rainstorm.
It made me laugh for a long time.
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