Headlight Washer & Heated Mirror Questions

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In a message dated 11/30/01 10:21:39 AM Central Standard Time,
quattro-request at audifans.com writes:

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 Message: 4
 Date: Fri, 30 Nov 2001 08:20:36 -0500
 From: "Traurig, Scott R" <scott.r.traurig at baesystems.com>
 Subject: Headlight Washer & Heated Mirror Questions
 To: "'quattro at audifans.com'" <quattro at audifans.com>

 HI all,

 Two questions about my 98.5 A4 1.8TQ:

 1. The owner's manual says the side view mirror heat automagically
 comes on at "low temperatures". What temperature might that be? I haven't
 felt any heat out of them with the outside temp. display as low as 38F so
 far.

 2. Do I have headlight washers? Maybe they're broken? All I see on the
 front bumper are a couple of small covers where you would expect them to be.
 The owner's manual and other paperwork say I do (a standard feature, in
 fact, not an option), and I see two different motors attached to the fluid
 reservoir, but I can spray the windshield for 10 seconds and still nothing
 gets wet up in the headlight area. What's up with that?

 Thanks everyone,

 Scott
 98.5 A4 1.8TQ
  >>

I had a '98.5 A4 1.8T. You must turn the headlights on to make the headlight
washers pop out of the bumper. They will come up after 2 or 3 seconds of
spraying . This was much fun for pedestrians to watch. They always reminded
me of one of the tools that would pop out of R2-D2's "head" in Star Wars.

The first winter I had my car I noticed that the "heated" outside mirrors
never seemed to work so I told the dealership. They ended up replacing them
both THREE times because every new mirror they put in was warped. I did
notice them working once when it was 10degrees F below freezing.(BTW, your
washer nozzles and drivers side door lock should also be heated)

Dean
'85euro-urq