[s-cars] instrument country codes & such

[CyberPoet]

Did the check last night, found 62 on mine (which is 6 cylinder, USA --
what it should be).

 From past experience with the '90 Audi 200 Turbo, I remember there is a
dip-switch on the back of the instrument cluster that permits you to
set the country information & thus the warning symbol content (although
it may be software accessed in newer audi's, I'm not sure -- check the
Bentley manuals closely before bothering to remove the instrument
cluster). Drove around in the 200 Turbo for a while with all the error
messages in German, then Arabic before I found the list of settings for
the US (after replacing the instrument cluster with one from a junk
yard).

=-= Marc

On Friday, March 21, 2003, at 09:23 AM, s-car-list-request at audifans.com
wrote:

> Just received my Bentley on CD yesterday (yeah!) and went to work
> trying to
> isolate my autocheck problem.
>
> One of Bentley's first steps in the troubleshooting is to check the
> coding
> switch position.  You simply hold in the autocheck/dimmer switch while
> turning on the ignition.  Two numbers are displayed.  The first should
> be
> the number of cylinders, and the second is the position of the coding
> switch.
>
> Looking at the provided table, I expect to see 52 (5 cylinders,
> 2=USA/Gasoline).  However, I was surprised to see 56.  According to the
> table, the 6 is for "All Other Countries Including Canada/Diesel"
>
> Anyone else ever done this test?