[s-cars] intermittently no electricity

[Mike Fitton]

I hear you guys on the switch.  I don't have my wiring diagram in front 
of me right now, but here's some stuff I should have said earlier...

When it was doing whatever it was doing, I flipped the headlight switch 
up.  I didn't get out to actually look at the parking lights, but the 
dash lights remained off.  Would a failing switch cause that scenario?

Then I tried to turn on some equipment in my trunk.  I have a computer 
and an amplifier that draw power directly from the 
so-conveniently-located battery, but the remotes for those are powered 
from a terminal under the steering wheel.  Like I said, misplaced my 
diagram, but I think that's the 30 terminal?  31?  Can't remember.  It's 
the terminal that's tied to the ~8awg wire coming from battery 
positive.  Whatever I chose, I chose it because it's unswitched and that 
equipment does run without the key, but didn't this afternoon.  So would 
that rule out the ignition switch?

-Cheers!
Mike

Ian Duff wrote:
> Ignition switch, or braided ground. My money's on the switch.
> -Ian Duff.
>
> On 25 Mar, 2009, at 21:50, Mike Fitton wrote:
>
>> So goes the story...parked the car last night around 7.00.  Went out
>> today around 4.00pm to go get coffee, so the engine is off and the key
>> is out for about 21 hours.  Turn the key, wait my customary two dings,
>> turn to start, all goes dead.  No starter, no anything.  Even tried the
>> parking lights, since they're operable without the key.  Oh well.  Hop
>> in the SHO (my new beater/flipper, mullet not included) and get my
>> coffee.  About 6.30 this evening I get back home and try the Audi
>> again.  Fires right up.  I scratch my head.
>>
>> I haven't checked the battery terminals yet, but will sometime tonight.
>> Aside from that, anything else anyone can think of?  I have been
>> spending more time in the SHO over the last week or so, trying to locate
>> its (extensive) bugs and it and its pieces have consumed my whole
>> garage, so the S6 has been spending nights outside, which is unusual.
>>
>> -Cheers!
>> Mike
>>
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