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Old 02-27-2003, 03:52 PM
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Default Ghost in the machine....

Anyone experience this with their A6:

Driving down the road and the overhead lights, the same ones that come on when the door opens, briefly turn on (gradually as if you opened the door) then turn off? This happens about every 2-3 minutes. I had to turn the switch to "off" to stop it.

The radio head-unit display occasionally "strobes" and the currently playing CD in the changer restarts from the beginning of the current track. This seems to have no correlation to the overhead light "ghost."

I wanted to see if anyone else has seen this before I tax my dealer's diagnostic abilities.

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Old 02-27-2003, 03:53 PM
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Default That happened to ChrisJB's A6 while he was down here 2 years ago!!!

He may be able to shed some light on this.
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Default Door lock loses its conection and doesnt sent proper signal to......

central locking control unit.Basicly microswitch inside door lock loses ground but not complity and unit becomes confused with the signal it is reciving.As soon it turnes on lights the door lock gets very slight voltage drop and starts to send proper signal to unit.It just comes around like that
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Pun intended, Ming? (Gotta read the post)
Old 02-28-2003, 05:08 AM
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Default Thanks...

I tried slamming all the doors and the trunk and that seems to have helped. I'll bring it to the dealer's attention if it continues.
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