Rear Ambient Lighting Removal
 

I'm to try and get the ambient light working on the rear passenger door this weekend.
Before I start taking it all apart, can someone confirm if this is the correct way to remove it?

http://i155.photobucket.com/albums/s...s/Ambient2.png

Does this assume you have the door trim off first?

Don't know.

At first I assumed it was on the car but I thought that might be stupid.
But no I don't know.

The picture looks like it could be done in situ, but the last instructions suggests refitting the door trim.

Removing and installing interior door lighting strip
Special tools and workshop equipment required

t Removal wedge -3409-

http://forum.a8parts.co.uk/attachmen...1&d=1395940902

Removing
– Remove door trim → Rep. gr.70.
– Unplug electrical connectors -1- and -2-.
– Unscrew bolts -arrows- and detach door opener.

http://forum.a8parts.co.uk/attachmen...1&d=1395940902

– Unplug electrical connector -1-.
– Carefully press lighting strip -2- out of door trim on back -arrow-.

http://forum.a8parts.co.uk/attachmen...1&d=1395940902

– Use removal wedge -3409--item 1- to carefully prise lighting strip out of retaining clips.
Installing
Installation is carried out in the reverse order; note the following:
– Install door trim → Rep. gr.70.

http://forum.a8parts.co.uk/attachmen...1&d=1395940902

That's the full information for it.

It looks like you might be able to take out without removing the door trim but you might have to unplug the light.
So might be better to take the card off.

The card isn't too bad to do.. I need to do mine on that side too, and might as well replace the broken speaker grille while I'm in there.

I wish all my problems was on one door.

Rear left is ambient lighting strip.
Rear right is broken door speaker.
Front left is broken door handle light.
Front right is broken switch and unlock sensor on the door handle.

I took the door card off and removed the light strip.
Couple of things if you've not removed the door card before.

1st, price the trim away from the right (near the hinge), not the left. Its all clips apart from the left where its a sort of a pushed afir.

2nd, don't drop the lower door pocket nut behind the door pocket, that's bad and annoying.

3rd,You don't need to remove the blind trim when removing the door cards.

4th, buy spare clips, I broke one, so not to bad really but its worth getting a hand full if you are doing other doors.

5th, the blind mech is kind of cool.

6th, its not a LED strip as i'd assume it to be. Its more like a sheet of paper that glows. I'm not sure on the correct term.

7th, its a bitch to remove and make sure you remove it up and out of the back of the door card. Not down and out the front.

8th, they are about £45 from Audi, not as bad as I thought it would be but it don't look like the sort of unit that would break, there is nothing to go wrong really.
I'm wondering if its the cable or control unit that's faulty but all other lights work, so I'm going with that.
To test it I have to take off another door card. unless someone knows what voltage they use and I'll attached it to something.

Has anyone else removed their door card?
what all your hex bolts covered in white paint with white writing over the back of the card?
I've only ever seen this from breakers, no sure if its something that audi did/do or its a 2nd hand card.

Same door, same problem.

Have you had all your halogen interior lighting swapped to LEDs???

I somehow think that this plus front passenger's door handle, outside, which doesn't lit up every other time, is related to drop of voltage because of LEDs being fitted now everywhere :Confused:

All my interior is still the normal incandescent bulbs.
I will replace them soon.
The door handles seem ok, only 1 out of 8 stopped working.

Chatting to Don, his has gone as well, same door, same year car.

Seems a bit odd.


I put 3v thought the old strip and nothing happening.
I'm going to get a 9v battery and try again. I might even put 12v or 19v,
I think my power packs run out at 19v. lol

240V ?? ;)

On a serious note, that is weird. Yours, Dan's and mine is 06 plate. Same door!? really weird.

Anyone replaced it?


There must be something that's causing it go more than the others?

No, so far I know only about yours and Dan's.

How about if you just take the right door card off and plug it in there to see if it works, does it take long to remove the door card??

Not really.
I think I stripped mine off twice and refitted in less than an hour and that's messing around with the strip trying to remove that.

I'd rather not remove things willynilly though.

I need to do my door handles at somepoint, so I might test it then.