Re: Upshift Relay

[jon beck <jon@tranquility.net>]

Thanks Ti and Huw,

The VW relay doesn't chime for the Lights on, maybe that's why there are 
extra pins on the audi relay.  The seatbelt feature still works.  Thanks 
for the difference in the scirocco vs. audi engine info.  Another 
difference that I know is that the audi has hydraulic lifters (which i just 
replaced) and the vw's are mechanical.

jon
86 4000s 180k


At 04:16 PM 11/7/99 -0800, you wrote:
>jon beck writes:
> > I have an '86 4000s, 180K that I recently purchased, my first audi.  I 
> have
> > been making many small repairs with the help of my Bentley and my VW ('86
> > sirrocco, same engine as mine) owning friends.
>
>The 86 4000 doesn't actually have the same engine as the Scirocco.
>The 86 Scirocco as sold in the US is the low-compression 90hp unit
>(same as the the 83-84 GTI).  The 85-87 4000 on the other hand has
>the high compression 102hp unit, with knock sensing ignition.  The
>equivalent engine is used in the 85-87 VW GTI/Jetta GLI.  The 87+
>Scirocco went to a 16V motor so it's different again.
>
> > We discovered that we could
> > get rid of the annoying upshift indicator in both of our cars by 
> removing a
> > relay.  My question is, will anything else be harmed by the removal of 
> this
> > relay?  Am I screwing up any emmissions things or anything else?
>
>No harm done.
>
> > I also
> > changed the door open ding/dong relay to a VW realy that has a better
> > sound, a 3-toned noise.  Will that present any problems?  The relay from a
> > VW fits in my audi, but there are fewer pins on the VW relay.
>
>No harm there either.  Except I (and many of my friends) have the
>opposite opinion about which sounds better.  Some of the VW guys
>consider a swap to the Audi chime an enhancement...  The VW chime
>is real cheesy-sounding to me, like a ice cream van siren.  The Audi
>chime is more soothing sounding...  Well I guess I each his own.
>
>-Ti
>96 A4 2.8 quattro
>84 5000S 2.1 turbo
>80 4000 2.0
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