86 4000q with no headlights

[Larry C Leung]

Are you running high wattage (i.e greater than 60W, either beam) 9004
bulbs? If so, this is par for the course with the lousy connectors that
Audi has blessed us with 9004 lights. Replace the connectors, and stick
with stock wattage bulbs. Or try the 9007 conversion while the sockets
are out anyway. Not sure if it helps the 4K Aero lights, but it did help
the type 44 Turbo lights (they are so pathetic anyway that it couldn't
help but help!). Buy the NAPA or Sylvania Xenon (as opposed to halogen)
charged bulbs (PULEEZE not blue tint!) which are more efficient at
producing light than halogen bulbs, so that a 45-50W (or whatever they
are) bulb puts out as much or more light than the stock halogen 55-60W
bulbs. The better lighting pattern (not Euro grade) makes up for the
higher wattage bulbs that really don't help out 9004 lamps anyway. The
difference with 9007 bulbs is that their filaments run longitudinal
(north-south) rather than laterally (east-west). It seems that at least
on the turbo lamps, more of the filament is closer to the lamp's focal
point. What dim-bulbs, those Audi light designers (at least DOT)!

LL - NY

On Tue, 08 Jan 2002 22:28:02 -0800 "chris franz" <cr4ck3r at hotmail.com>
writes:
>hey all,
>   Here's the situation.    My quattro has no headlights.    First the
>left
>one went out and I thought that it just died but then the other one
>went out
>too.      So my first thought was that the switch went out and I went
>searching and found nothing.    Then I checked the headlight itself.
> The
>ground wire on both headlights is completely fried.    The plastic is
>all
>burned and warped.    What would possibly cause this.    I'm going to
>replace the headlight assembly to remedy the problem but I would like
>to
>figure out the reason for this so that it doesn't happen again.
>Pretty
>scary to think that my headlights equally started to burn up.    Looks
>as
>though they were close to catching fire.   Scary.   Well, any help
>would be
>greatly appreciated.     Thanks in advance.
>Chris
>86 4000csq
>
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