YBorg

I worked n my car (oil change and top up fluids) and run it a little and everything worked fine and normal. About an hour later i wanted to go to the video store and non of those items mentioned seemed to work (light,horn,wipers,turn signals,AC and who knows what else) all at once. I have no idea what could have happened, i disconnected the batery for a few minutes and checked all conections that i could find under the hood, nothing seemd out of the ordinary or damaged in any way. I also checked the fuse box, same thing. There would have to be something that controlls all of these items.
Any help would be greatly appriciated.

I have a 2000 A6, 2.8L V6, ATQ FWD.

QCRAZY

Ignition switch...jiggle the key..then order a new one.

thomas1978

first i get this one and both are for 98 A6 so...
<img src="http://pictureposter.audiworld.com/78449/week_015.jpg">
then the correct one for me (*broken)
<img src="http://pictureposter.audiworld.com/78449/week_020.jpg">

YBorg

what is the name and where would this part located correctly and what is the part number of the item you replaced?

thomas1978

<ul><li><a href="http://www.audipages.com/Tech_Articles/electrical_equipment/ignswitchreplace.html">ignition</a></li></ul>

4Driver4

The C5 crowd is just starting to experience these failures as the cars get older, yet on the 80/90 forum or the C4 forums, this would be a common problem and the poster might get flamed for posting such a noob question.

I bet we will see many more of these failures in the C5's as they age.

thomas1978

mine break about 60k and i replaced mine at 75k ) jiggle , jiggle

Just Me

Yep, I put 4 (ignition switches) so far in my 1995 C4

keithk

Very common and these are classic symptoms. No signals, no wipers, blows fuses.