[V8] back-up light switch

[32VQUATTRO]

couldn't he just remove the starter lockout relay from the ruse panel and 
insert a bridge in its spot(not unlike the rest of the older 200/100/5000 
5-speed Quattro's?
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Tony and Lillie" <tonyandlillie1 at earthlink.net>
To: "Kent McLean" <kentmclean at comcast.net>; "V8-list" <v8 at audifans.com>
Sent: Saturday, May 02, 2009 3:23 PM
Subject: Re: [V8] back-up light switch


> Kent,
>
> For the starter circuit, Here's what I can interpret.
> The only connection to the trans circuit is through the alarm system, it's
> the ground for switching the starter/interlock relay (number 8). It's
> connected to the multi function switch via a green wire, from terminal 
> 1/50W
> on the switch. This is connected to a brown/white wire on terminal 2/50,
> which is a ground Feed. The circuit is completed when the shifter is in 
> Park
> or Neutral. So, you will need to jumper the brown/white wire to the green
> wire, and this basically bypasses the MFS altogether.
>
> This part of it allows you to completely bypass the start portion of the
> MFS. However, to make it simpler, I'd find the starter relay under the 
> dash
> and jump it instead. Test it to make sure it works, then that's one liss
> thing you have to modify. I don't have the schematics for the 5-speed, but 
> I
> know this is in fact how Audi did it on all the other manual cars of that
> era. No relay in that position, just a small "Z" metal strip.
>
> Tony
>
>
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Kent McLean" <kentmclean at comcast.net>
> To: "V8-list" <v8 at audifans.com>
> Cc: "Tony and Lillie" <tonyandlillie1 at earthlink.net>
> Sent: Saturday, May 02, 2009 12:37 PM
> Subject: Re: [V8] back-up light switch
>
>
>> Tony wrote:
>>> That's exactly where you will find the starter relay. Did you not get my
>>> email on that? That's what I was talking about hooking the two wires
>>> together for. Not the BU lights, which would indeed be on all the time.
>>> If you do the BU lights wiring, and hook the two starter wires together,
>>> you can eliminate the MFS alltogether.
>>
>> Oy.  I cut the blue and gray wires, hoping the conversion mechanic
>> connected the back-up switch wires down at the transmission.  I was
>> surprised to see 0V at the gray wire.  So I slept on it, and in the
>> morning tested the *other* side of the gray wire (Doh!). The 12V on
>> the gray wire is coming *out* of the MFS. (See additions here:)
>>
>> <http://www.audifans.com/kb/Automatic_Multi-Function_Switch>
>>
>> I'm afraid if I just cut all 8-10 wires, the car won't start. So before
>> I cut the wires, I'd like to know which wires control the starter relay.
>> Any one have a clue?
>>
>> Thanks.
>>
>> -- 
>> Kent McLean
>> 1999 A4 Avant, V6 Tiptronic
>> 1991 200 TQA #3, with mods
>> 1990 V8 w/5-speed and other mods
>> gone: '91 200 TQA x2, '94 100 S Avant, '89 200 TQ "Bad Puppy"
>>
>
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