Charging C4 Battery using jumper positions

[Steve Mills]

The posts are there so that you don't have to pull the back seat for jump
starts. There should be a threaded stud on the passenger side inner fender
for a convenient ground.

The only thing to be careful about is the earlier cars (anything before the
95.5's A6/S6) is shorting the clamps against the bolts and washers that hold
the strut bar to the shock towers. That's probably why they went to recessed
allen bolts on the later cars.

Steve

On Tue, Aug 2, 2011 at 4:41 PM, Jay M <jaybird002 at msn.com> wrote:

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> Hello everybody,
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> Just curious, on our 1996 A6 my wife left the key in the ignition in the
> first on position overnight and needless to say the battery was totally dead
> this morning upon startup. I removed the battery from underneath the rear
> seat and used my trusty old Sears 6 amp battery charger for a 6 hour charge
> on the work bench. My question is in the future if I need to charge the
> battery using this battery charger can I just charge the battery using the
> emergency battery jump positions under the hood near passenger side
> firewall....that is to say the positive lead from charger to positive
> emergency jumper post (underneath black plastic cover) and negative lead
> from battery charger to good chassis ground up front?
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> Also, I was surprised upon reinstalling battery that I did not have to
> input my radio code for the original Bose stereo. The radio turned on fine
> and did not display the usual CODE message telling me to input the radio
> code. All my other present and previous C4's are and have been 1995's so
> this is the first Audi C4 I had that did not require the code when the
> battery was disconnected and then reconnected. Is this normal for a 1996?
> Thanks.
>
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