Interior lighting.

Posted: Tue Nov 03, 2009 2:19 pm

[/quote]

Posted: Tue Nov 03, 2009 2:24 pm

lol. Nearly a year between posts.... Shock

I know the gallery (and site) is giving errors; trying to sort it now.

Jas- if you can get to your gallery (without using the link to the gallery front page)- can you see if it will allow you to upload a pic please?

I don't think the gallery -or the site software for that matter- is the problem. Fingers are pointing to the hosts, who are being unusually quiet.....

Posted: Tue Nov 03, 2009 2:32 pm

Will do, just off to finsih this, then I will be needing to upload the piccies anyway Wink

Posted: Tue Nov 03, 2009 2:53 pm

if it doesn't work, fire me a PM and I'll advise how you *may* be able to do it...

Posted: Tue Nov 03, 2009 5:05 pm

Replied in our mod area Andy to the above gallery issue.

Ok, interior light switch button now fitted and working great.

Revised schematic first. The permanent 12v is so that the switch works at all times, either with ignition on or off. The switched 12v is so that the switch icon is illuminated like all the others next to it.

The relay is a five pin 30 amp relay I got off ebay with a connector and some flying leads.
The connector for the switch was new from Audi along with the pins and wires.
8L0 971 972 for the connector at approx £3 and 000 979 135 for the wires with pins at approx £2 for two of them which have a pin on either end, so you just cut them in half.

Permanent 12v I took from a previously installed power socket that I'd wired into the passenger footwell.
Switched 12v was taken from the switched 12v wire I'd previously wired in to my Becker headunit, it ultimately comes from the rear of the lights on warning buzzer under the drivers parcel shelf.
All the earth's went to the earth post that is near the bonnet release lever, just joined them together into a ring tag and fixed it there.
That left one wire to run along the inner cill trim and up the door post to the door switch.
There's two wires that attach to the door switch, a brown/yellow and a brown/white. The retaining screw that attaches the door switch to the body acts as an earth. Attach the wire coming from pin 87 of the relay to the brown/white wire, I opted to snip off it's crimped terminal, join the two wires and then crimp on a new terminal.
That's it. Now the switch when used just earth's out the brown/white wire, the same as the door switch does when you open your door.
All the interior lights come on at once.

Needs to get out more Joined: Jun 21, 2009 Posts: 161

Hi their loving the thread but can any 1 tell me if its possible to make the lights in the door handles to come on when the engine is stopped but go out when the door has been opened and close. But also when the engine starts up the lights go out thank you