Electrical gremlin

[Andrew Lundy]

Has to be the ignition switch.  That's a common way for them to
behave...when good switches go bad :-)!!
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Andrew Lundy
fast928 at prodigy.net
90 80q
95 90q
----- Original Message -----
From: "Benjamin Kwan" <bkwan at lynx.dac.neu.edu>
To: <quattro at audifans.com>
Sent: Thursday, July 26, 2001 8:41 AM
Subject: Electrical gremlin


> Hi all,
>
> had something really weird happen to my 92 100CSq yesterday.  In
> the morning I started up the car and rolled out of the garage.  Once out
> of the garage the windows didn't work at all.  Sunroof had no problems.  I
> decided to shut the car down and turn it back on and everything came back.
> I figured it was maybe a one time thing that I will look into later if it
> get's worse.  About 15 minutes into my commute the water and oil temps
> start to rise and I don't hear the fan come on at all.  I was stuck in
> traffic for about 2 minutes before I could pull off into a church parking
> lot.  While sitting in traffic I tried to turn the heat on but the climate
> control was not responding at all.  I thought that this might be part of
> the window problem I had earlier so I tried the windows and they worked.
> So I had the car towed to my mechanic and he thinks that the ignition
> switch may be causing all of these problems.  When you start the car the
> switch would stick and cause the starter to run for about 2 seconds after
> the car has started up.  I can manually turn the key back slightly to stop
> it from happening.  Could a sticky ignition switch be causing all of my
> problems?  My mechanic says that the switch is part of the accessories
> circuit and may have caused the radiator fan not to function, and all the
> electrical weirdness.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Ben Kwan
>
> 94 90S
> 92 100CSq
> 85 4000S
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