Why the *explative* (5ktq electrical)

[Huw Powell]

> Ok so I'm running in to some real headaches with my '87 5ktq as far
> as electrical connections. It seems that no matter where I turn all
> of my electrical harness plugs are different then every other 5k I've
> ever seen.
> 
> It all started about a month after I bought the damned thing 3 years
> ago and found that the reason the power locks didn't work was the
> control unit by the battery was MIA. So I grabbed a spare and.... WTH
> the plug is different? I went to my other 5ktq and yet again,
> different plug (same as the spare). 3 years and 5 5k's later (various
> T/noT, Q/noQ '86-'88) and tons of boxes of parts later I haven't
> found a compatible door lock controller.

Why haven't you simply spliced on an appropriate connector that matches 
a good pump unit on hand?

This diagram should be pretty accurate to your car:

http://www.humanspeakers.com/audi/power-locks-89.htm

It's a thing I wrote a long time ago, but it should be a pretty good 
refernence, except being type 89 specific, your pump is in a different 
place.  But you know that already.

Oh, and do you have pictures, or a good description, of the different 
connectors?

-- 
Huw Powell

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