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

[Igor Kessel]

Ron Kirkham wrote:
> 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!?!

Guys, it's neither the lights, nor the harness. :)
Open up the cluster, and look carefully at the top board. One of the
long chips soldered in is the Autocheck. You have a cold solder joint at
Pin.1. Touch it up with a soldering pensil.

Now ask me after how many weeks if driving me insane intermittent
buzzing did I find the sumbich...
:)



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Igor Kessel
two turbo quattros