Audi future

[Huw Powell]

>>The Germans have nearly as much difficulty with proper electrical
>>systems as the British.
> 
> I dunno, my experience with recent Audis have been that the electricals
> are quite good...  I've had no gadget-related problems on my B5 S4 and
> the B6 A4, nor did I have any problems with the B5 A4 that I previously
> owned.  The only nits were minor and few.

Well, I have no business commenting on this thread, never having driven 
an Audi made in the last 15 years, but, my 89 90Q was amusingly 
illuminating in this regard.

Electrically, the car is rock-solid.  Strong, clean charging voltage, no 
connector or ground issues (the grmelins of the 80's), window switches 
that keep working since they are internally sealed against grime now, etc.

Except!  The row of switches in the dashboard, other than the seat 
heater controls and the defroster switch (one has been around for a 
while and the other is too simple to fail), are almost impossible to 
keep working.

It seems it takes VAG/Bosch/whoever a few years to figure out how to 
make their new switches/connectors/what-have-you work properly and 
reliably over the long term.  Everything else on the car electrically is 
essentially 2nd or 3rd generation versions of things they had been doing 
  for years, those dash switches were a fairly new design at that point.

-- 
Huw Powell

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