Ways to delete suspension warning lights

[cooljustin]

Hi guys,

I have two suspension warning lights - one oragne (constatnly on) and one in green - flickering.

I have tried VCDS and also took the car to the local audi dealer but without any success.

Is there any way to remove / delete those annoying warning lights?

nb. I have repalced the stock air-suspensions with the coilovers.

* The vehicle is D3 A8L 6.0 W12

[mattylondon]

Nice Mod

I don't really have any answer so I'm just throwing out suggestions.

Would a replacement CAN Gateway, and or other modules, from an A6 work as this model never had adaptive suspension?

What other errors are thrown up by not having working adaptive suspension?

[Delboy]

Like Matt has said this type of thing is going to require some creative thinking to fix,

I assume you have tried removing the module and deselecting it from the gateway?

It may be that the instrument cluster expects comma to the suspension controller and will always complain.

If that's the case you could try reconnecting the level sensors to the wiring and hide them up behind the arch liners out of the way tricking the car into thinking it still has air suspension but that may require the use of power resistors to mimic the coil in the shock absorber.

If you knew of someone good with electronics that can packet sniff the can network for happy suspension messages then manufacture a small unit to plug in to replace the suspension controller and pretend that it's a happy suspension system.

That would be the cleanest way round it assuming that you can't code it out or do as Matt says and change things like gateways / coding to remedy the problem.

Your not the only one that has this problem and I'm sure there's people eager to here a fix for the problem.

Perhaps post a full scan to start off so we can see where the base line is.

[ainarssems]

Open up dash and remove out LED's for warning lights if it's just lights anoying yuo and no other issues.

[g-black]

Does channel 6 in the level control adaptation not turn it all off?

[tipptop]

Popular mod on allroads so I'd be looking on those forums to see how they deal with it.

[Burnzybubbles]

I'm guessing the allroad lads would just code the car to a normal a6, if there was a d3 without adaptive suspension from factory I'd try and go from there, it's my own opinion obviously but why coilovers? If you want stance people use air as its best of all worlds, if you want handling then coilovers, but the a8 even though it does handle remarkably well, will never be a track car.

[audifin]

Very interesting mod Sorry I can't help you with the fix, but can I ask why did you do it and how does it compare to the air suspension it had before?

[cooljustin]

Thanks so much for the tips and advice gents!

I will follow some of your recommendation and see how it works out!

Regarding the ride comfort.. its a little softer than Dynamic mode, but I can always adjust the damper setting manually.




I am aware that Ohlins and KW have Canceller kit for R8 so I can just buy the kit and hook it up to delete but I was hoping to resolve the issue without spending much $ on removing those annoying lights!

Maybe I should just take out the LED

* I chose the coilovers over airsuspension since I hated the conventional air-suspension keep getting sagged and constantly being cautious over any leak.

I also didn't like the feeling of "jelly-like" comfort whilst cornering due to elongated body of A8L.

I am happy overall.

And I do love tuning my rides up with new parts

[tipptop]

Put some black tape over it until you find a permanent solution... Ignorance is bliss!