[s-cars] Grrr..... Auto-Check is driving me crazy!

[Richard Kurtzer]

Thanks for the reply Bernard,  Im gonna check those
trunklid lights and wires.  As far as mismatched
bulbs,  the first thing I did after cleaning the
contacts was replacing all the turn and brake bulbs
with new OEM (VW parts depot, i work at a dealer)
bulbs to eliminate that possibility of different bulb
impedence.

Thanks,
Richard Kurtzer

--- Bernard Littau <bernard at littau.us> wrote:
> Not sure if this applies to an s-car:
>
> On my 5ktq, the wires going to the lights in the
> trunk lid were responsible
> for my auto-check problems.  Over time, the
> insulation had become brittle
> where the wires cross over from body to lid,
> allowing some inter-wire
> contact.  I wound up cutting out the brittle parts
> and splicing in a loop of
> wire to correct the problem.
>
> Another possibility is that you have mismatched
> bulbs R/L.  The autocheck
> system checks not so much for a bulb out, but for a
> difference in current
> draw R/L.
>
> HTH,
>
> Bernard Littau
> Woodinville, WA
>
>
> > Richard,
> >
> > I'm in the same "bulb out" boat!  I cleaned all
> the IC contacts this past
> > weekend and it did not help.  I saw a post from
> Igor? a while back about
> > some bad solder connections on the IC circuit
> board and touched-up a
> > couple
> > of spots on there, but that didn't help either,
> maybe I was looking at the
> > wrong area.
> >
> > I'm seriously thinking of finding the little
> beeping thing and cutting
> > it's
> > wires, and maybe even living without the display
> all together.  I've been
> > dealing with this for almost a year now, and am
> pretty sick of it too.
> >
> > If anyone has the answer, please let us know.
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Ron 93 S4 (beeping waaaayy too often)
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: s-car-list-admin at audifans.com
> > [mailto:s-car-list-admin at audifans.com]On Behalf Of
> Richard Kurtzer
> > Sent: Thursday, October 23, 2003 1:50 PM
> > To: s-car-list at audifans.com
> > Subject: [s-cars] Grrr..... Auto-Check is driving
> me crazy!
> >
> >
> > OK guys,  Here's the scoop:
> >
> > I'm getting an intermittent but very frequent
> "bulb
> > out" warning from my autocheck.  I cleaned all the
> > contacts and replaced all the brake and signal
> bulbs,
> > but no dice!  Anyone BTDT?  None of the bulbs are
> out.
> >  WTF!?!
> >
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