melting headlight switch on 4000

[Kneale Brownson]

When I was "surfing" Audifans.com archives for advice on fixing the 
headlight switch in one of my 4kq's, which had the wiring harness connector 
melted onto the switch body so that I had to splice in new harness wires 
with new metal ends (just try finding THOSE) for the new connector to 
connect to the new switch,  I read the real culprits were the wires going 
to the back of the car rather than to the headlights.  My meltdown was in 
the several (was it three) wires side-by-side in the middle of the harness 
end.  Anyone know where those wires go and how to relay them?


At 06:16 PM 02/07/2001 -0500, Huw Powell wrote:



>"dcrismon at mail.slip.net" wrote:
> >
> > I have had my 1987 4000CS Quattro since 1991. Just in the last year I 
> have had three headlight switches melt. I have noticed conversation about 
> this topic before, but I can't find a solution in the archives. Has 
> anyone found a fix?
>
>relay the headlights.  also the parking lights if you want to be super
>sure.  this may have been covered in the past... in detail.
>
>--
>Huw Powell
>
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>
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