FW: [urq] Finally got the alternator warning light to shut up!

[Buchholz, Steven]

... here's a post of a message I had sent during Tony's troubleshooting
series back in 2001 ... you can search the archives with the title of
this message to get all the related posts ... 
> 
> To my mind, Tony's fix for the light in the recent post [i.e. 
> installing a diode] is fixing a symptom ... it really doesn't 
> fix a problem.  Some time ago he also posted a note about 
> swapping two wires going into the fusebox, where Audi had a 
> small gauge wire hooked up to a high current pin on the box 
> and a higher current wire connected to a pin that attaches to 
> the same internal circuit.  I forgot that I had the wiring 
> diagram here ... it is the "run" switch on the ignition 
> switch (track 75) which is a 16ga black wire connected to pin 
> E2.  The 20ga wire supplying power to the seatbelt warning 
> relay (track 176) is attached to spade lug G3 (!) ... you can 
> swap the two to create a better situation.  I checked the 
> wiring diagram for my Fox ... and I think even some of the 
> newer cars with the underhood boxes ... same deal!  
> 
... as most long term list members are probably painfully aware, I am
always exhorting urq owners to resolve grounding issues first ... that
certainly applies here too ...

Steve B
San Jose, CA (USA)