how to disable airbag 200q? Bad combo switch?

[Kneale Brownson]

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At 09:18 PM 05/25/2002 +0200, Eyvind Spangen wrote:

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