Possible Electric Blind Retrofit

[Goran]

Originally Posted by steamship

Just on a follow-up to this question I posed before, which Architex_mA8tey or Mkoneman could probably help with.

Now that I've had the gas conversion done on the car, does retrofitting the rear blind involve any work or access requirements from the boot area, as mine is now rather cramped:



If it can still be done, any help on the cabling required would be a bonus, as that is probably my biggest concern to doing it right.

Unfortunately yes. You will need to unbolt the speakers, from the boot, as they need to be unplugged and removed to remove the rear parcel shelf.
To access these screws you need to remove the plastic speaker covers attached to the boot roof.
Also, the frame carrying the rear blind is bolted to the boot roof, so you will need to unbolt it from the boot. There should be 3 nuts to remove.

[steamship]

Originally Posted by Goran

Unfortunately yes. You will need to unbolt the speakers, from the boot, as they need to be unplugged and removed to remove the rear parcel shelf.
To access these screws you need to remove the plastic speaker covers attached to the boot roof.
Also, the frame carrying the rear blind is bolted to the boot roof, so you will need to unbolt it from the boot. There should be 3 nuts to remove.

Cheers for that. If it ever dries up, I'll have to look in the boot to see if I can access the speaker bolts, and have a look for where the bolts for the blind would go. I have a copy of Elsawin so will check in that as well.

[HPsauce]

I had my parcel shelf speakers out a while back when I was checking out the poor bass sound.
IIRC once you've got the plastic covers off (which you have already) there are a couple of screws to loosen slightly so that the retaining latches can be swivelled out of the way, then the speakers just lift out from above.
Obviously the plugs need to come off too.
I didn't look closely at the fixings for the blind so can't say if you need access underneath to retain it, but it wouldn't surprise me.

I'd say that gas tank would be seriously in the way - I was lying on my back with my head right up behind the seat to see the fixings.

That big lump under the parcel shelf inboard of the right speaker is where the motor etc. for the rear blind sits.

[steamship]

Originally Posted by HPsauce

I'd say that gas tank would be seriously in the way - I was lying on my back with my head right up behind the seat to see the fixings.

'How hard can it be?' - Will probably put my back out (again) checking I can access everything, even before I attempt it.

[ulfilias]

Hi There,

My old S8 has the LPG tank there. Due to a dodgy fuel guage and not understanding how the fuel pump worked, I had the petrol run out and the fuel pump burn out as it uses petrol for lubrication, so be careful to always keep some petrol in the tank! Audi wouldn't touch the LPG tank so I went to an LPG specialist and they wondered what the hoo har was. This also meant that I ended up finding the pump in the plastic housing rather than the really expensive stealer part, so despite them charging me £200 diagnostics and someone else doing the work, it was cheaper than Audi doing the job

Lee