Blau Harness Questions (long)

[Paul Meyers]

Well, since you asked, I left the sockets with  bulbs in them in an easy-to
access space. I know that sounds awful, but I have exactly 3 sets of turbo
euros with the bulbs happily still in place tied to the sheet metal near the
wheel well. They're doing fine and I didn't need to disable the bulb-out
circuit. If I ever get around to it, I plan to solder resisters into empty
bulb sockets for a permanent installation. 

Also, one of the nicest things I did to my 3 blau installations was to add
the rubber gromets to the headlight connectors, making for a tidy, finished
look to the installation and providing some additional measure of
weather/salt resistance to the install. I know, it seems in contradiction to
leaving the other marker light installed but laying around. Go figure. 

To install the gromets, you need to remove the four pins from each connector
and, using some soap for lubrication, feed them one by one through the small
end of the grommet. When they're through, you insert the pins back into the
connector, attach, and you've got an installation that looks as if it were
done in Germany. Nice.

Paul Meyers 
Gray 87 5KCSTQ 1.8bar eurolights fuchs 145 kM, needs loom transplant 
Pearl 88 5KCSTQ 1.8bar eurolights fuchs bilsteins 125 kM 2pc-em k24 turbo 
Metallic White 87 5KTQW 191 kM daily driver
Blue 86 5KCSTQ parts car 



-----Original Message-----
From: Allen Swett [mailto:allens at mitronics.com]
Sent: Thursday, October 05, 2000 8:34 AM
To: quattro at audifans.com
Subject: Blau Harness Questions (long)


Hi List,

  Installed Euros w/Blau harness last night on my 89 200q.  Everything went
quite nicely, still have to disable the autocheck bulb out function when
time permits.   Lights function as they should....what a relief from the
candles I've been accustomed to......  
  I have a couple of questions for anyone familiar with the Blau harness
may be able to help out, or for that matter anyone with more of an
electrical clue than myself.....My blinkers are all in FAST mode.  Usually
indicative of a bulb out?  But no bad bulbs....So....anyone have an idea
what I'm missing here? 
Also, what have all you other Blau harness users done with the old bulb
sockets?  Left them intact, out of the way?  Snipped them?  Wondering what
if anything this has to do with my FAST blinking prblem..... I'm sure I'm
missing something simple here, but can anyone help shed some light on my
situation.....?

Thanks in advance
Allen Swett