Trip Computer WAS: 85-87 4000Q differences WAS: 40K miles on 84 4000Q!!!

[Jim Haseltine]

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Per Lindgren" <lindgre at online.no>
To: <audi at humanspeakers.com>; <quattro at audifans.com>

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> Huw Powell wrote:
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> > The trip computer is supported by at least a bunch of wires, it would
> > be crazy to try to retrofit them.
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> Then I must be crazy, cause if I can get my hands on one (preferably the
> Urq digi-dash w/boost) and a harness, it's going in!

I don't know about crazy, but certainly imbalanced. Last week I received an
email from a guy with a 85 Ur-q with an electrical problem - some of the
wires near the wiper switch were burned.

As he lives a mile from where I work I took a look. Bit more than 'some',
looks to me as if the supply to the light dip/flash switch shorted out and
has melted all the way back to the fuse box, taking the insulation from
quite few other wires with it. Little chance of finding a replacement loom
in reasonable condition without paying a fortune so it's now on my living
room floor beside a loom from a 86 CGT and I'm playing 'hunt the wire'.
The Ur-q has digi-dash, computer, ABS and auto-check (with voice) and the
CGT doesn't.
I'm working slowly, checking, double checking and then checking again before
I do anything.

I really wouldn't like to be starting from scratch.

Regards,

Jim Haseltine