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Hilarius! Disco interior light on 3 of the 4 doors! Pass front door is the only one left. Oh Dan...

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Old 08-15-2005, 06:11 PM
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Default Hilarius! Disco interior light on 3 of the 4 doors! Pass front door is the only one left. Oh Dan...

Dan, how did you fix the door switch for the lights? Your pics are offline.
Old 08-15-2005, 09:37 PM
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Default I took the door latches out and cleaned them with brake cleaner over and over....

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Then after about an hour they worked. THEN after a month they did not.

I will be installing high quality typical door switches in my car to eliminate this issue forever....
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Default Damn, But wait just a minute. Arent there 2 switches in the doors?

One for interior lights and one for the Alarm?
Does the car alarm go off when you open the door and its armed?
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Yes there are two. Either I will find a single ground two pin swtich, or two small high quality ones
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Is there any posibility that we can use the alarm switch for both?
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Default The two switches are exactly the same. There would be no reason to use just one, It will fail too...

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It might be possible to tie them together, but I am not sure if that would cause any issues. The alarm might mess with the dome lights fading, or the dome lights fading causing issues with the alarm. There must be a reson for audi to seperate the two circuits.
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True... well i guess ill join you in the hunt for a good switch for our purpose
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