s2 cruise /headlight stalks= A4?

[bluequattro]

AHHH! No headlights working properly
I persume its the stalks as with some wiggling they come on, then go off by themselves
looking for a set with cruise control ( with English spellings be nice, not my german ones!)

[mcandmar]

They can usually be fixed if you dismantle them. First off give all the contacts a good clean, then look at how the light switch works, its basically a piece of metal that is held against contact tracks with a spring. Sometimes the metal piece just needs a little bend back in to shape to make proper contact on either end. Kind of hard to explain without a picture but i suspect that is the case if they work with a wiggle of the stalk.

If you do need a new one, as sometimes they can arc and melt around the elecy plug pins, the stalk can be switched over by taking them apart so dont limit your search to just cruise control versions.

Also late model cars with projector lights have less pins on the elecy plug so i dont think they will work properly in early cars like 3B/7A's. I assume the difference is down to early cars needing two full beam outputs for the H4 and H1 bulbs.

[andy10v]

They can usually be fixed if you dismantle them. First off give all the contacts a good clean, then look at how the light switch works, its basically a piece of metal that is held against contact tracks with a spring. Sometimes the metal piece just needs a little bend back in to shape to make proper contact on either end. Kind of hard to explain without a picture but i suspect that is the case if they work with a wiggle of the stalk.

If you do need a new one, as sometimes they can arc and melt around the elecy plug pins, the stalk can be switched over by taking them apart so dont limit your search to just cruise control versions.

Also late model cars with projector lights have less pins on the elecy plug so i dont think they will work properly in early cars like 3B/7A's. I assume the difference is down to early cars needing two full beam outputs for the H4 and H1 bulbs.

You can swap the a pin over to make a 3b stalk work with aby lights, its documented on here somewhere as I had to do it for 3b-projector-hid.

[Bowlerwell]

I had a headlight problem on the last RS2. Full beam would often just switch off.
I took the stalk assembly to bits, and gave it a good clean, and that fixed it.