87 5kCSTQ Mysterious Brake Light

[Simon Allcorn]

BTDT last week when my 80 q failed the MOT test because the fog light
wouldn't work. The wires at the join were all broken (and been repaired
once). Found the best way to repair it was take some mains cable (multi
strand) and replace a ~150 mm section so the new joins would be inside the
plastic holders and (hopefully) will not be bent to much. BTW you may need
to 'remodel' these plastic holders (with a pair of cutters remove some of
the side) since it's quite a tight fit. Hope this helps :)


Simon


> -----Original Message-----
> From:	Kneale Brownson [SMTP:knotnook at traverse.com]
> Sent:	Tuesday, July 24, 2001 4:46 PM
> To:	Paul Meyers; 'quattro at audifans.com'
> Subject:	Re: 87 5kCSTQ Mysterious Brake Light 
> 
> Did you inspect the wiring at the trunk lid joint?
> 
> 
> At 11:28 AM 07/24/2001 -0400, Paul Meyers wrote:
> 
> >So, during the year storage in the back yard, I bashed a quarter-sized
> hole
> >in the right rear taillight assembly on the Gray 87. Chris Semple sends
> me a
> >new taillight (thanks, Chris). I install it last night. Easy to do with
> deep
> >8mm socket. Hardest job is reworking the sticky black goo used to keep
> water
> >out. I go for a test drive and on comes the warning light telling me my
> >brake lamp is kaput. I go around to the rear of the car, having son press
> >brake pedal. Sure enough, the brake light no longer lights. I know it
> >worked, since the car just passed the state safety inspection. So I
> figure
> >the light bulb must have coincidentally burnt out. No, filament still
> good.
> >I check all the fuses, Nope.
> >
> >Then I turn on the headlights. Now the mysterious behavior. The brake
> light
> >now comes on with the taillight! Other brake lights work normally, but
> this
> >one now only comes on with taillight and fails to work as a brake light.
> >
> >No connectors were removed or reattached in the lens replacement process.
> >The bulb carrier just snaps out then snaps back into the new lens
> assembly.
> >There is no electrical contact between the bulb carrier and the lens
> >assembly, so it can't be a ground problem.
> >
> >What gives?
> >
> >Paul Meyers
> >Gray 87 5KCSTQ 1.8bar eurolights fuchs 147 kM
> >Pearl 88 5KCSTQ 1.8bar eurolights fuchs bilsteins 128 kM 2pc-em k24 turbo
> >Repainted Pearl 87 5KTQA 1.8bar eurolights TT wheels bilsteins 203 kM
> daily
> >driver
> >Blue 86 5KCSTQ parts car
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