Another HID prob

[Acidburn]

I doubt it your talking pish, just gotta find whats causing it asap, not sure if that someone with e**a the family album etc could find out where it would be ?

[s2_southwest]

i forgot to update this. my problem has gone away by replacing the headlight/indicator stalk switch. i must of had a fault switch where a contact was either breaking down or had shorted to another contact. all ok now though

[Acidburn]

Ok mate thanks for updating, i've got a spare stalk set so will try find that and give it a go, just out of interest what wires do you still have connected, the yellow and brown/white?

[newsh]

The twin white plug might be the feed to the indicator repeater.. I've had a car, audi 100, fitted with the dim-dip thing, cant remember where it was but seem to think the resistor was pretty large. Not sure the S2 was ever fitted with this though.

As far as driving with side lights only, these are for parking, if its time to put the lights on you should use dips.

Sounds like changing the stalk is your best bet.

[Acidburn]

I tried the stalk with no luck still same problem

[newsh]

I've found the dim dip wiring diag in the 88-90 coupe handbook. Haynes page 12.43.
There's a relay J89 and a resistor N74 the relay runs from S18 (I think, writing very small) its 25A removal should ditch the dim dip feed.
The relay should be in the lower relay plate in position 18, the resistor thing may be nearby.. wire from relay to resistor is gn/ge (green/yellow?)

Its possible the problem can be solved with a later switch stick and you are replacing with the same type?

[Acidburn]

Yeah true the stalk I tried was off the b3 20v that I had so that would be the same I think.

Take it the lower relay plate is underneath the steering column.

I'm going out in a sec as I saw when I got the headlight motors working what i thought was some sort of resistor behind the aux radiator and was going to have a look at that.

[newsh]

The relay may well be pink in colour, yes under the steering wheel..

[Acidburn]

Right i've had a look under there was not 100% where the relay is but happened to wonder why I had a green/white wire plugged into one of the relay plugs? This was a bit worrying it looks like its aftermarket so I un-plugged it to see if everything worked after.

The car started up fine good start, I check the side lights and this is where it goes a bit pete tong, the drivers one on the first click of the stalk would not light, the passenger one lit up strobing but after about 5 seconds came on and worked fine, so I checked the fuses etc for the drivers light to see if i'd knocked anything when I checked the lights again they strobed on first notch and worked fine on second, but when I started up the car on the first notch the drivers light went out once but I tried it again and they both strobed, I did not want to leave this on so switched it onto the 2nd notch and they worked fine.

With reference to the wire I found, under the steering wheel on the relay board there are 3x plugs at the bottom, on the right hand one looks like my afterrun brown relay finally seen one, the one to the left was empty and the next one had what looked like two connections, the wire was plugged into the top one.

[newsh]

No pink relay then... did you check fuse 18 or 16, in the fuse box??

[Acidburn]

Fuse 18 or 16 didn't know that was anything to do with that, can go and check them now if it is?

[newsh]

LOL you're not reading my posts

Sorry wasn't that clear, S18 is a fuse..

[Acidburn]

I am honest

Which comment number was that? comment 51 says about relays but I don't remember one about fuses maybe i'm just being daft

[newsh]

If its not the dim dip ******** then there must be a short, maybe have a look at the wiring plug to the stalk, sometimes they can get a bit carbonised.

[newsh]

I am honest

Which comment number was that? comment 51 says about relays but I don't remember one about fuses maybe i'm just being daft

Yeah, 51 mentions S18 (writing very small, could be 16) have no idea whether it applies to your car, these S2s are all different see..