Electrical

Electrical stuff

A4 Cabriolet Brake Bulb Replacement

2012-04-07 – The left brake bulb burnt in Dec 11, and now the right side went out. I think the electrical system on the A8 was much better. Anyhow, since I documented this page, it took me less than 10 minutes to replace the bulb with just a Philip screw driver.           Again, remove

A4 Cabriolet Battery

Thanksgiving morning our Cabriolet battery suddenly died completely and we had no idea what happened. We took out the cover, terminals and charge the battery with our charger, the battery is dead totally. Charged it for 5 hours and it’s still not charged fully. We checked and the batter is registering 12.5V.  We could start

Q7 Bluetooth Hand-Free

We got new cell phones after a few years and we need to pair them to our Q7 bluetooth hand-free system. We forgot how to do it and here it goes after a few tries, the manual wasn’t very clear. Turn on the ignition, press the TEL button (green light will be on and message

98 A8 D2 MAF (Mass Air Flow) Problems

A8 MAF

Our 98 A8 was running fine for many years 168k miles on the odo until one day, it died at a stop light, but it started right up. It had some hesitations a few days earlier (according to my wife who’s the driver). She went home and it had some hic-ups then died again on

Symphony II Problems With Antenna On A4 Cabriolet

What’s made to fail, will fail and what’s designed so bad that it would fail more frequently and cost consumers more. Audi did it again for the antenna cable getting kinked at the trunk hinge, causing antenna cable to break and radio loses its signals. Again, our Cabriolet is 7 year old and 71k miles,