RE: S6 Brake Light

["Geoff Jenkins" <jenkinsg@pilot.msu.edu>]

This cropped up shortly _after_ the bomb failed on my '94 S4. The bomb was
definitely bad, failed the usual tests etc., but about a week after the new
one was put in, the light came back. After testing everything, the solution
(from AofA, no less) was:

Overfill the hydraulic fluid resevoir, and the sensor will
activate/deactivate properly.

YMMV, etc...

Geoff

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Geoff Jenkins * Department of Economics
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> [mailto:owner-quattro@coimbra.ans.net]On Behalf Of Mark Reis
> Subject: Re: S6 Brake Light
> On Fri, 30 Oct 1998, Lawrence Eisenberg wrote:
>
> > Hi Everyone,
> >     I have been a lurker on this list for a while and I recently
> > replaced my 84 4000Q (which I had for 12 years and loved) with a 95.5
> > S6 which has been a total delight except for one nagging problem.
> > When I got the S6  early in the summer the brake light (which checks
> > pressures as well as fluid levels in this model) would stay on for
> > about 25 to 30 seconds when started up first thing in the morning.  If
>
> [Snip]
>
> My S4 does the same thing.  Funny tho, that my wife's 100 (same year)
> doesn't, though I would guess the fundamental setup to be the same.
>
> Anyway, at this point I've chosen to simply ignore it.