S4 Relay Gremlin exorcised!

[Michael Newcomb <miken@miken.com>]

On 25 July, I wrote:

>I have a 1993 S4 with 21.5K miles.
>
>Over the past few months, it has developed a really annoying and peculiar
electrical gremlin.  With the ignition off, relays inside the dashboard
start chattering and clicking wildly.  If the windows are down, they roll up
by themselves. ...

Well, after much searching, the problem turned out to be the central-locking
control module.  It's an easy fix, but the module costs about $300.

After replacing this module, you have to reprogram all the keys, and I
replaced the battery (it got run flat a few times too many <g>), but it
wasn't as much a horror as I feared.  I had nightmares of tracing endlessly
through the wiring harness looking for shorts......

I just thought I'd pass this solution in case the gremlin moves in with
somebody else.  After all, car problems are never actually _cured_, you just
chase them off and send them in search of a new host.

Thanks for all your suggestions and support,

Mike N.

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