[s-cars] Interior courtesy lights

[Jay M]

Thanks Tom.  I have owned a couple of these UrS6 cars for years and never experienced the light issue I described. Also, I rarely have the need to lock the car's doors. However, after reading your post I went out to the car after the battery had been fully charged, started it up and took it for a spirited run. Turned off car and put the key in the door to lock and then unlock the door. I then used the infrared door lock to lock and unlock the doors and wouldn't you know it, all interior lights were working as they should!
 
However, I do remember in year's past that when the car sat for a week or so, I would have to go through the same lock-unlock cycle as described above in order for the infrared locking to work again. Thanks for the reminder!
 
J
 
From: trgreen at comcast.net
To: s-car-list at audifans.com; jaybird002 at msn.com
Subject: Re: [s-cars] Interior courtesy lights
Date: Sat, 17 Nov 2012 15:38:05 -0500

You should feel lucky if that is the only result from fooling around with a weak battery.  Many problems that result from that behavior are more significant.  Probably locking and unlocking the car with the remote will re-sync things but as for the actual cause I don't really know.  Just knowing to avoid the issue is enough for me.

On Saturday November 17, 2012, at 2:10 PM, Jay M <jaybird002 at msn.com> wrote:
S Heads, This is not a big deal to me but it is just puzzling me. I am curious to know what's going on (or not going on in this case) and if anybody else has experienced this before. One of my UrS6 cars has been suffering from a weak battery. Today I went to the car to start it, opened the driver door. The front dome-light by sunroof control illuminated as it should in addition to the two lights over each rear door. I started to crank the engine. The engine cranked about 3-4 times before the battery lost cranking power. I hooked up battery charger and charged for a couple hours. After charging I opened the driver door and noticed that none of the interior lights lit up as before. I moved the 3 way toggle switch for the front light by the sunroof control and moved it all the way forward towards the front of the car and light turned on (as it should in this position). Moved switch to the middle off position and light did not come on (this is normal). I moved the switch all the 
 way back towards the rear of the car (this is the position the switch was in before and allows the lights to turn on when the door is opened and turns off after approximately 20 second delay or when key turns over ignition) and the light does not come on as it should with the door opened. Both lights above the rear doors expereience the same symptoms and the lights don't come on when any of the four doors are opened. I thought maybe the plunger switches that are located in the door jambs may be sticky so I jiggled them around to no avail. I don't think it is a fuse because all the lights work when the switch turns them on but none of them work when the switches are in the position for them to turn on when the doors are open. Any ideas? Thanks.  
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 Tom '95 S6           '95.5 S6 avantKnoxville, TN