speaking of lighting

[Andrew Duane USG]

Hairy green toads from Mars made Lee Levitt say:

> > Haven't gotten around to ordering the Bentley for my new car yet,
> > so I'm hoping someone can help me out with a relay location.
> > I'm looking for the fog light control relay on a 2000 A6Q sedan.
> > The dealer was less than helpful, as usual (said there probably
> > isn't one, it's all done "by computer" now).
> >
> > I need to continue my fine tradition of blatantly violating DOT
> > regulations by un-relaying the fog lights from the low beams on
> > this car. I have yet to have an Audi that I kept following the
> > DOT regs (either Euro lights or fog light decoupling).
>
> Hey, me too. :)
>
> On the older cars, it's easy enough to run a different hot lead to the dash
> switch. May be the same for yours. They haven't reinvented everything on
> these cars, right? :)
>
> BTW, exactly how rare are the 5 speeds? I have a friend looking for a late
> model A6 with a stick, and he's not really a candidate for the 2.7T.

It's even easier than that. Since the EU requires that fog lights be
independent of low beams, they provide a simple relay. Put the relay
in for the US, and the low beams power the fog lights. Take it out
and put in the brass jumper, and the fog lights are independent.
BTDT twice so far. Total time: less than 30 seconds, no wiring at all.

As for the 5-speed A6Q 2.8s, they are very rare.
I've heard numbers in the few hundreds tops. And they were only made
in 2000. It is *possible* he might still find one but I doubt it.
And I doubt that any owners would voluntarily part with theirs!


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