AudiWorld Forums - Blinker relay replacement... Piece of cake

My blinker relay, a part one would think would last the life of the car, went bad: erratic blinking, no blinking, or nothing at all. This relay is part of the hazard flasher assembly, P/N 8N0 941 509 A. I replaced mine tonight, and I know that others have had this problem, so here's the how-to.

First, you have to get the radio out. This requires special tools that fit into the two slots at the bottom of the radio. So rather than buy a set of tools I would use (hopefully) once, I went to Best Buy and asked the mobile electronics installation guy to do me a favor and pop out my radio. So he did.
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Next, ease out the radio and gently set it down. No need to disconnect it and send it into lock-down mode.

Take out the plastic panel you see on the top of the radio slot in this picture.
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It has a hole you can stick your finger in to yank it down.
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It will drop down like this:
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Note the piece duct tape I found at the back of the radio slot. Was this really designed this way? I wonder what the official Audi P/N is for duct tape...?
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Next, pull down on this hinged plastic piece until it unsnaps. (My finger is touching it in this picture.) It takes a bit of force, but it releases all of the dash buttons.
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Then you can push the relay inwards through the hole...
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... until it drops down (or until you can grab it).
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Unplug the defective relay.
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Plug your new relay in the wiring harness, feed it back up into the hole, snap the lever back up into place (again, it takes a fair amount of force), insert the plastic plate, slide the radio back in, and you're done! Easy 10 minute job.