RE: Electrical gremlins (elves?): summary

[Gary Kaklikian <Gary.Kaklikian@digital.com>]

Is this true on the 5000cstq also? All of the functions listed below appear
to work OK on my car except the radio on binger, which never works.

Thanks,
Gary Kaklikian
'86 4kcsq (awaiting turbo)
'86 5kcstq
'93 K1100RS (for sale)

-----Original Message-----
From: Elliott Potter [mailto:epotter@abraxis.com]
Sent: Monday, January 04, 1999 1:57 PM
To: newbold@telerama.com
Cc: quattro@coimbra.ans.net
Subject: Re: Electrical gremlins (elves?): summary


The part of the instrument cluster that has the chime sounder is a
separate box that plugs in to the rest of the instrument cluster--it's
modular so that they can use the same cluster with or without the trip
computer.  There are a few tall pins that stick out of the instrument
cluster PCB, and they seem to fit very loosely into holes on the said
box...that could be where the problem is?
--
Elliott

Chris Newbold wrote:
> 
> I wrote:
> 
> > Looks like the Audi Santa, er God, of electricity has come early this
> > year... I've got some weirdness with things driven off the driver's door
> > jam switch.
> >
> > As in most Audis, the driver's door jam switch drives a number of
things:
> >   o dome light
> >   o radio on binger
> >   o lights on binger
> >   o alarm
> >   o interrupt power windows (first time door is opened after ignition
> >     switched off)
> >
> > In the last few days, things haven't worked right; at first I figured
> > that the switch must be worn or corroded. However, I've noticed that
> > the failures affect a random collection of the items above.
> >
> > Tonight, for example, the dome light did not go on when I opened the
> > door, but the lights-on and radio-on binger worked, and so did the
> > power-window interrupt. This morning, I had dome lights, but no
> > binger.
> 
> Thanks to all for the replies. Here's the scoop: I had two problems.
> 
> The door switches actually have two contacts (three connections, including
> ground), though they both engage at the same time. A disassembly revealed
> no corrosion, but a thorough cleaning solved the problems with the dome
> light, etc.
> 
> It also looks like there's a bad connection somewhere on the IC PCB,
> which is causing the intermittent and "scratchy" sounding binger. I still
> have to track this one down and repair it.
> 
> -Chris
> 1993 90CS 5sp 72k miles