This may not work, but it is free and will take less than 5 minutes. There is a stack of connectors under the right front corner of the driver's seat. You can get to them easily by tilting the front of the seat up. Disconnect the black, two wire connector at the top.

You can see this connector in the 4th picture down in Boston Driver's sport seat install post.
This is for the rear footwell light, so you're not missing much by having it unplugged. I did this over 4 months ago and have had no fuse 14 issues since.

I arrived at this fix after isolating the cause of the blown fuse to the seat (I noticed that the interior lights were on until I sat in the seat on one particular occasion). I saw several posts here regarding some wires in the seat shorting. Digging through the wiring diagrams, the only one I found tied to fuse 14 was this one. The root cause may be more involved (like maybe the lumbar support), but this will at least let you know which wires are involved. I think I can live for quite a while without the rear footwell light.

If it doesn't do the trick, you can reconnect it just as easily.

Hope this helps!

• Boston Driver's sport seat install post

2000 A6 2.7T 6MT
Ebony Pearl/Tungsten