88 5KTQ this week my idle speed has gone up

[Ben Swann]

Chris,

 

Just replace the switch and be done with it.

 

Ben

 

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From: LL - NY [mailto:larrycleung at gmail.com] 
Sent: Sunday, April 20, 2008 8:27 PM
To: audi at humanspeakers.com
Cc: JeffreyZentner at aol.com; benswann at verizon.net; quattro at audifans.com
Subject: Re: 88 5KTQ this week my idle speed has gone up

 

Ah, I guess I wasn't clear. I meant jumpering the break in the Circuit board trace that
causes the switch to fail as if the switch wasn't triggered. I recall that Scott put a
how-to jumper the trace. Of course jumpering the switch closed would be self defeating. 

On 4/20/08, Huw Powell <audi at humanspeakers.com> wrote:

 

Also, I forgot, it is quite likely that the switch is a single piece unit.
If you check Scott's site, you will get the part number of the desired and
updated switch, which overcomes the broken
circuit board problems that the earlier (direct replacement) part had. It
also describes how you can jumper your existing switch until you can get the
replacement switch, as I recall. I also recall that the jumpering tends to
be a rather temporary repair.


Very temporary - if the idle switch doesn't open (or is jumpered closed), on most of
these cars, you'll be stuck below a brick wall at about 1400 rpm.



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Huw Powell

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