[V6-12v] Headlight warning

[George Tur]

On Wednesday 07 September 2005 12:10 am, apowell at colocougs.org wrote:

>
> I'm in danger of saying more than I know, but in my 1990 200 the solution
> to the bogus warning was to remove the headlight warning relay and jumper
> across the contacts. I figured out which contacts to jumper - probably
> around 1998 - and posted a solution to the list. The Hon. Igor Kessel also
> did the same about that time. Unfortunately I can't find the file I wrote
> at that time. But if Roger is right and this is an old topic here, someone
> should have a similar solution.  IIRC, it took either one or two short
> wires with spade bits that I plugged into the socket for the headlight
> warning relay - simply defeated the warning.
>
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I think the headlight warning setup on the C4 and later body styles is 
different from the earlier models. When I took a look at euro lights and 
harness for the wife's 95 A6 I found that the later cars had a bulb 
monitoring unit rather than just a relay. Blauparts sells a modified bulb 
monitoring unit for a little over $100. I don't know what the modification 
consists since I didn't look into it any further.

Hope this helps

George Tur