side markers as turn signals on CGT

[Huw Powell]

Steve Buchholz wrote:
> 
> Huw Powell writes:
> 
> > wiring diagram at url below...
> >
> > http://www.humanspeakers.com/audi/parkturn.gif
> 
> ... corrected URL above ...

(corrected?  no, that one is wrong, the gif is in the /images subdir. 
Anyway, now there is a file holding it, parkturn.htm... and it is linked
from the useful type 85 menu.  hey, it snowed, I couldn't "drive to
work" so i had nuthin better to do!)

> 
> While Huw's solution is most definitely workable, it does require the
> addition of relays and a fairly significant rewiring effort.  If you don't
> already have relays for your headlights then you also have to worry about a
> place to mount relays so that they will be protected from the underhood
> environment ...
> 
> The solution that I have implemented several times now (Fox, ury and 4kq)
> is to simply cut the brown ground wire for the side marker light, and
> attach it to the "hot" wire for the nearby turn signal.  I don't know what
> the color of this wire is on your car, but either a voltmeter or wiring
> diagram should get it for you.

oh yeah, that's right, that works, too.  But shouldn't everyone have
relayed their headlights by now???

> 
> I have posted the theory behind my solution here at least once in the past

It works because the wires for the signals and parking lights are
*grounds* when they are off, at least on these old Audis.

-- 
Huw Powell

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