re: mystery boxes

[Henry Harper <hah@srv.net>]

Phil:
>So all is well, once more. Thanks to all who replied and led me to explore
>beneath the rear seat and thus to see more wires, vacuum hoses and
>controllers than is good for my peace of mind.

>BTW, there is a black box (controller?) just inside the right end of the
>rear seat--outboard of the battery. It doesn't show up in the Bentley
>controller- layout diagram. Whazzit?

I firmly believe that that whatzit is the bi-pressure pump for the central locking system - see the central-locking troubleshooting section.

Aren't all those little boxes, hidden away, just waiting to break, scary?

Just got in (the digest, anyway) ahead of the other sodium-filled valve response, so let's see where this one comes in; though I don't get full credit as a result of not describing the sodium slosh - how much of a slosh are we talking, anyway, is the space in the valve stem only half filled with sodium, or what? 

Does it seem to anyone else that a lot of the 20v 200q's are changing hands recently, or is that just me?

Henry Harper
http://www.srv.net/~hah
1991 200 quattro, euro lights on the way, alarm still doesn't arm from driver's door, but all windows working, steel snow rims on the way, now I just need to figure out what size Hakkas fit on them
1988 GTI 16v, getting jealous, might pitch a fit and want a header