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D2 - Lights Headlights, xenons, foglights. Everything outside the car that glows |
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What do you mean by 'unit'? The whole headlight? Or "the metal box about the size of a pack of cards attached to the side of the headlamp unit"?
If the latter, there must be a connection somewhere. I'll have a look on the spare headlight before I start!
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2002 Final Edition S8. Ebony black with Silver Grey leather and myrtle wood trim. Current mods: solar sun roof, 20mm rear spacers, 15 mm on front, red brembo callipers, 6k headlights, rear view camera, engine remap, alloy dash dial rings, alloy navi rings, tt/phaeton pedal upgrade, (and custom matching foot rest) dension ipod interface & parrot hands free kit (both fully hidden), av input, tv in motion switched thro' PF switch in blanking plug right of steering column, Audi 'quattro' sill covers, repositioned centre console switches, radio clock, .Planned mods: auto-dimming rear view mirror, dash cam (as steamship's), fit the ski hatch, refit philips drl's (or maybe not - nope, definitely not - horrible botch!). |
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The metal box It may have a connection at the box itself, or may be fed from connections inside the headlight unit.
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There's no way that's coming off with the headlight in place, so it'll have to wait for the weekend!
Still don't really understand what the issue is as the replacement bulb (not new and a lower 'rating') is behaving much better (but not 100%). David's poor connection to the bulb problem makes me wonder if this isn't a similar issue. Still, headlight out on Saturday.
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2002 Final Edition S8. Ebony black with Silver Grey leather and myrtle wood trim. Current mods: solar sun roof, 20mm rear spacers, 15 mm on front, red brembo callipers, 6k headlights, rear view camera, engine remap, alloy dash dial rings, alloy navi rings, tt/phaeton pedal upgrade, (and custom matching foot rest) dension ipod interface & parrot hands free kit (both fully hidden), av input, tv in motion switched thro' PF switch in blanking plug right of steering column, Audi 'quattro' sill covers, repositioned centre console switches, radio clock, .Planned mods: auto-dimming rear view mirror, dash cam (as steamship's), fit the ski hatch, refit philips drl's (or maybe not - nope, definitely not - horrible botch!). |
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Could be a tired component in the ballast if a lower rating bulb is happier.
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Going to try to swap the ballast at the weekend, but mine don't look like this:
http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Audi-A8-D2...item2c6af945fd more like this: http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Audi-A3-S3...item43c41596b9 Am I looking at the wrong thing?
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2002 Final Edition S8. Ebony black with Silver Grey leather and myrtle wood trim. Current mods: solar sun roof, 20mm rear spacers, 15 mm on front, red brembo callipers, 6k headlights, rear view camera, engine remap, alloy dash dial rings, alloy navi rings, tt/phaeton pedal upgrade, (and custom matching foot rest) dension ipod interface & parrot hands free kit (both fully hidden), av input, tv in motion switched thro' PF switch in blanking plug right of steering column, Audi 'quattro' sill covers, repositioned centre console switches, radio clock, .Planned mods: auto-dimming rear view mirror, dash cam (as steamship's), fit the ski hatch, refit philips drl's (or maybe not - nope, definitely not - horrible botch!). |
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Could be part of the difference between Xenons and Bi Xenons...
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Yes, could be. The A8 Parts ballast came off a 2000 A8. I think Bi-xenons were later IIRC?
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2002 Final Edition S8. Ebony black with Silver Grey leather and myrtle wood trim. Current mods: solar sun roof, 20mm rear spacers, 15 mm on front, red brembo callipers, 6k headlights, rear view camera, engine remap, alloy dash dial rings, alloy navi rings, tt/phaeton pedal upgrade, (and custom matching foot rest) dension ipod interface & parrot hands free kit (both fully hidden), av input, tv in motion switched thro' PF switch in blanking plug right of steering column, Audi 'quattro' sill covers, repositioned centre console switches, radio clock, .Planned mods: auto-dimming rear view mirror, dash cam (as steamship's), fit the ski hatch, refit philips drl's (or maybe not - nope, definitely not - horrible botch!). |
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I replaced Everything with just a new ballast from ebay with new connections to the bulb socket mostly bc the cost of the oem's
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Are these the connections? http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/2808552182...84.m1497.l2649 And if this is the ballast: http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/01-06-AUDI...item3f258d7a27 What's the plastic box here? http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Audi-A8-D2...item2c6af945fd And do I need to replace all 3 components?
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2002 Final Edition S8. Ebony black with Silver Grey leather and myrtle wood trim. Current mods: solar sun roof, 20mm rear spacers, 15 mm on front, red brembo callipers, 6k headlights, rear view camera, engine remap, alloy dash dial rings, alloy navi rings, tt/phaeton pedal upgrade, (and custom matching foot rest) dension ipod interface & parrot hands free kit (both fully hidden), av input, tv in motion switched thro' PF switch in blanking plug right of steering column, Audi 'quattro' sill covers, repositioned centre console switches, radio clock, .Planned mods: auto-dimming rear view mirror, dash cam (as steamship's), fit the ski hatch, refit philips drl's (or maybe not - nope, definitely not - horrible botch!). |
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I used one of these
Ballast And one of these Connector And finally one of these.(only need 1) Power supply wire The one that was blown on mine was UK driver side where the ballast is attached to the lamp, the new ballast wont fit onto the lamp so it needs to be placed somewhere behind the lamp. Wires was run true the hole where the old ballast used to sit and silicone was used to seal it. if i'm not 100% sure but on UK passenger side i think the ballast is placed away from the lamp so that will make this easy and cheap fix easier. Reason for going with this solution was: -Unsure if the ballast or ignitor was broken -To expensive to buy brand new and a used is over priced. -It seemed that getting the ignitor out would be a pita of unknown dimensions. Been working smooth for 1.5 years. You can also use any 35w "slim" ballast but my experience is that they tend to stop working after a while
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2003 Daytona Grey RS6 2000 Silver S8 2005 A6 1.8TQ Premium 1993 Audi S4 2.2 TQ MTM 330 (my first love!) |
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