[s-cars] Interior courtesy lights

[Tony Curran]

Jay,

If the car is left standing for a week or more one has to re-sync remotes by
locking/unlocking with key. I have had this several times with the RF
remotes.

Tony
96 S6

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Sent: November-23-12 9:56 AM
To: trgreen at comcast.net; AudiFans; quattro at audifans.com
Subject: Re: [s-cars] Interior courtesy lights





Thanks Tom.  I have owned a couple of these UrS6 cars for years and never
experienced the light issue I described. Also, I rarely have the need to
lock the car's doors. However, after reading your post I went out to the car
after the battery had been fully charged, started it up and took it for a
spirited run. Turned off car and put the key in the door to lock and then
unlock the door. I then used the infrared door lock to lock and unlock the
doors and wouldn't you know it, all interior lights were working as they
should!
 
However, I do remember in year's past that when the car sat for a week or
so, I would have to go through the same lock-unlock cycle as described above
in order for the infrared locking to work again. Thanks for the reminder!
 
J
 
From: trgreen at comcast.net
To: s-car-list at audifans.com; jaybird002 at msn.com
Subject: Re: [s-cars] Interior courtesy lights
Date: Sat, 17 Nov 2012 15:38:05 -0500

You should feel lucky if that is the only result from fooling around with a
weak battery.  Many problems that result from that behavior are more
significant.  Probably locking and unlocking the car with the remote will
re-sync things but as for the actual cause I don't really know.  Just
knowing to avoid the issue is enough for me.

On Saturday November 17, 2012, at 2:10 PM, Jay M <jaybird002 at msn.com> wrote:
S Heads, This is not a big deal to me but it is just puzzling me. I am
curious to know what's going on (or not going on in this case) and if
anybody else has experienced this before. One of my UrS6 cars has been
suffering from a weak battery. Today I went to the car to start it, opened
the driver door. The front dome-light by sunroof control illuminated as it
should in addition to the two lights over each rear door. I started to crank
the engine. The engine cranked about 3-4 times before the battery lost
cranking power. I hooked up battery charger and charged for a couple hours.
After charging I opened the driver door and noticed that none of the
interior lights lit up as before. I moved the 3 way toggle switch for the
front light by the sunroof control and moved it all the way forward towards
the front of the car and light turned on (as it should in this position).
Moved switch to the middle off position and light did not come on (this is
normal). I moved the switch all the  way back towards the rear of the car
(this is the position the switch was in before and allows the lights to turn
on when the door is opened and turns off after approximately 20 second delay
or when key turns over ignition) and the light does not come on as it should
with the door opened. Both lights above the rear doors expereience the same
symptoms and the lights don't come on when any of the four doors are opened.
I thought maybe the plunger switches that are located in the door jambs may
be sticky so I jiggled them around to no avail. I don't think it is a fuse
because all the lights work when the switch turns them on but none of them
work when the switches are in the position for them to turn on when the
doors are open. Any ideas? Thanks.  
******

 Tom '95 S6           '95.5 S6 avantKnoxville, TN 

 		 	   		  
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