RE: speedo fix

["Cordeiro, Alan" <Alan.Cordeiro@mts.com>]

Bob,

Mine has worked perfectly since I did the main four
joints , nothing else. Perhaps I will see another repair
coming up soon...

(Then again, I may soon cross over to the DARK SIDE....
 last Saturday I went and looked at a non-Audi, AUTOMATIC...)

BTW, for all the list, many RELAYS such as the
auto-down power window, etc can sometimes be saved
by resoldering joints where the HEAVY components
are soldered to the tiny printed circuit board inside
the case. I had mentioned this way back ( four years??)
as a really POOR DESIGN on Bosch’s part to use
ONLY SOLDER as the main mechanical means to secure
heavy parts to a circuit board when these parts are installed
in a unit subject to constant vibration.
( Reminds me of the ten minute fix to most old Macintoshes,
when the screen display went to a line, Four joints on the
high voltage transformer...a heavy part subject to constant
high frequency ..15khz... vibration)

Alan 

	-----Original Message-----
	From:	Robert Myers [SMTP:rmyers@inetone.net]
	Sent:	Tuesday, September 29, 1998 1:34 PM

	Tried that, Alan.  BTDT got the t-shirt.  The problem is a poor
connection
	at two places.  The first place is on the small PC board of the
speedo head
	itself (where the four pins are attached).  The other is the joining
of the
	four pins with the IC main board.  The soldered in bypass solves
both.

	If you can get it to work by just resoldering, go for it.  I wasn't
able to
	get mine to work properly.