[s-cars] Disabling dashboard clock self-adjust feature

[Lee Levitt]

Gisli,

Do you have an Audi nav system installed?

Are you talking about the clock in the cluster?

Lee

At 05:54 AM 8/22/2008, Gísli Óttarsson wrote:
>The clock in my 2001 S8 keeps resetting itself (incorrectly) based on time
>signals which it picks up from neighboring time-zones.  Does anyone on the
>list know how to go about disabling this feature?  I would be totally happy
>setting the clock manually like my forefathers did.
>
>My local Audi dealer first refused that such a self-adjusting clock even
>existed but have now agreed that my Audi might have what they referred to as
>a "radio clock".  They have offered to track down an antenna and disconnect
>it (breaking something in the process), but I can not believe that this is
>the only way to disable this.  Heck, the alarm clock on my nightstand has
>the same self-adjust feature which can be disabled by holding down two
>buttons at once.
>
>Thanks for any tips.
>
>  Gisli
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Lee Levitt
Needham, Massachusetts, USA
'01 A4 1.8t quattro avant
''99 A6 quattro avant
'97 A6 quattro avant
'96 A6 quattro avant