I really like my 2005 HCH w MT, it has very few faults. Yeah it could have a little more power, yeah some things about IMA are a little quirky but the one thing that bugs me the most about my HCH is:
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The remote! The remote is actually designed really well with a big button for lock, a small button for unlock, and a recessed button for alarm. The fact that it is missing a trunk release is a small bother. The thing that makes me crazy is getting the back doors to open. The first push alway unlocks only the driver's door. Sometimes it seems as if I can push that stinking remote a hundred times and the remaining doors still do not want to open!

I'd prefer all the doors open in a single push but the dealer explained that women in big citys were afraid that someone might jump in the car with them if all the doors unlocked. Newsflash! I don't live in a big city, and I'm not a woman. It isn't so bad that the remote requires a second push, it is that the second push fails to open the remaining doors most of the time. Why not have a single click option, like the Windows OS does. Two clicks can be the default setting so that the frightened women don't need to figure out how to reprogram the remote, single click could just be an option.

Am I doing something wrong? Is there a trick to getting the back doors open?