override 15mph diff-lock-off?

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In a message dated 2/1/01 5:24:22 AM Central Standard Time, 
isham-research.freeserve.co.uk at pop.freeserve.net writes:

> >> At the time of writing the original I had a Type 44 with a Torsen centre
>  >> differential less than TEN FEET away WITH THE BACK SEAT OUT!!!
>  
>  > You might also take a gander at the wire for the cutoff, I believe in 
the 
> 44
>  > chassis car that it's the blue white wire.  In fact, in *all* cars here  
> in
>  > the states with the 15mph cutoff, it's the blue white wire to the 
> controller
>  > that needs the interrupt.
>  
>  My Type 44 also has a blue/white wire.
>  
>  I'm sufficiently used to Audi's wiring colour changes that I prefer to
>  identify the wire by controller part number and pin, which is exactly
>  what I did.  I also quite clearly stated the information was for the
>  ur-quattro - sufficient caveat, I think.  Anyone with intelligence
>  (which undoubtedly includes everyone who conceives the need to do this)
>  will find they have no red/yellow wire, check the part number is the
>  same, and then find pin 1.

Thanks for the information Phil.  There are no urq's or *any* cars here in 
the states with any other cutoff color than Blue/White, which also appears to 
include your own type 44.  So noted.  All controller boxes in the states are 
also under the rear seat, btw.

>  
>  I'm curious as to what has brought you out of the woodwork in
>  hair-splitting and nit-picking mode again, after such a long period of
>  no useful contribution whatever from you and indeed little contribution
>  worth the name at all.  Was it perchance the announcement of my imminent
>  temporary withdrawal from the list?  Will being involved in a debate
>  when I go give you some specious feeling of having vanquished me at
>  last, having conspicuously failed to do so in the Torsen debate?

Phil, the above is a private post IMO.  That said, I've been subbed to all 
the qlists for some time (6 years?).  On occasion misinformation or in this 
case "incomplete" information causes me to "come out of the woodwork" .  I 
haven't read anything regarding your withdrawl from the list, don't care.  
Having retrofitted my 83 Urq with 2 S4 diff lock controllers and their 
respective switches grafting onto an 87 5ktq graphic panel, I am intimately 
familiar with wiring of the controllers.  Hope the information on the 15mph 
cutoff helped someone who wanted to modify the *correct* 15mph cutoff wire 
here in the USA.  

Scott Justusson