URGENT - Potential fire hazard

[S2central.net]

Please follow the link below to a safety related issues that I just discovered tonight. This is not a joke. It indicates a flaw in the wiring loom of ALL Audi 80 variants with the factory fitted headlamp washer system.

I am going to test this further, to confirm my findings before reporting this to Audi and anyone else who will listen to me.

http://www.s2forum.com/forum/showthread.php?p=145733

Paul

[Fat Audi 80]

Thanks Paul. I will remove mine for the time being as I don't like the washer anyway....

Cheers and good spot!

[topsparky]

Please follow the link below to a safety related issues that I just discovered tonight. This is not a joke. It indicates a flaw in the wiring loom of ALL Audi 80 variants with the factory fitted headlamp washer system.

I am going to test this further, to confirm my findings before reporting this to Audi and anyone else who will listen to me.

http://www.s2forum.com/forum/showthread.php?p=145733

Paul

you can get relays with fuses built in so that you don't have to modify the wiring i think lucas do them

[s2driveruk]

Hmmm, another way to melt everything, the wiring to the fan had a fault/short and the current draw melted the fuse box and provided me with a £550 bill a few days before a holiday in the first year i had the car...

[s2avant]

I had a fusebox meltdown a couple of years ago. There was no sign of a cause other than the notoriously dodgy fusebox itself.

Ben

[S2central.net]

you can get relays with fuses built in so that you don't have to modify the wiring i think lucas do them

Yer I know but I dunno if they are pin compatible with this one. Its not a standard SPST relay. The activation mechanism for the relay is lights on AND washers on - so two inputs are used by the relay to determine when to 'squirt'... that and a timer is built in as well - so you get a same sized squirt on the lights however long you hold the wahers on for the windoes.

Paul