how to disable airbag 200q? Bad combo switch?

[Eyvind Spangen]

On Sat May 25 15:07:16 2002, you wrote:

>I'm looking to disable my airbag on my newly acquired '90 200q so I can examine/replace my combo switch.
>
>Second question: what happens when a combo switch goes bad? My strange behavior is this: all the lights (parking, turn, head) all work as they're supposed to. There is no problem at all when the light switch is in the off position. In the parking and headlight positions, the dash lighting gets screwed up. If I use a turn signal, both of the turn signal lights flash, along with the highbeam indicator. As this is happening, the right side of the dash gets dimmer, then brighter. All of the external lights work properly, however. If I use the hazards, the behavior is similar, with only the highbeam indicator being brighter.

No need to disable the airbag, the strange behavior is caused by a bad
ground in the instrument cluster. You need to pull the instrument
cluster and re-solder/fix the bad connection. Somebody pointed me to a
nice page with pictures when I had this problem, but I don't remember
the URL, maybe somebody else does.. :-)

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E. Spangen
'90 Audi 200TQ 20v (godt parkert i låven uten skilter)
'96 Sykkel, drevet av '81 fattig student