Hello,
As the title states I seem to have had a major failure with my vehicles electrics. The wife and myself were out in the car the other night and she was driving. It was evening time, so it was dark and the vehicles lights were in use. When we got home she went to reverse into the drive way but stalled the car. When she started the car again I noticed that the lights did not come back on. I got the misses to turn the light switch on and off but only the side lights would come on, no dipped or main beam. So once the car was parked I began to investigate further.
Firstly I checked to see if there were any other electrics that were not working and found that there were a few more things not operational. The heater/blower, wipers front and rear, rear demister, indicators and as previously mentioned main beam and dipped beam. I checked the hazard button and the flashers worked, but not with the indicator stalks. I checked the stalk for the main beam and I can flash the main beam but it will not stay on normally. I then checked all the fuses and they were all ok.
So I decided to search the internet for some suggestions and came up with possible relay failure or control module failure. I was leaning more towards relay failure so went about trying to check the relays. The trouble is when I dropped the bottom of the dash and found the relays, which are numbered 53,100,167,206,382,387 and 389. I wasn't sure which relays link which components as I have can't find any diagrams that specifically tell what relay goes where on an S3.
Has anyone had this electrics issue ? Does anyone know what could make all these components stop working at the same time ? Any help would be greatly appreciated thanks.
As the title states I seem to have had a major failure with my vehicles electrics. The wife and myself were out in the car the other night and she was driving. It was evening time, so it was dark and the vehicles lights were in use. When we got home she went to reverse into the drive way but stalled the car. When she started the car again I noticed that the lights did not come back on. I got the misses to turn the light switch on and off but only the side lights would come on, no dipped or main beam. So once the car was parked I began to investigate further.
Firstly I checked to see if there were any other electrics that were not working and found that there were a few more things not operational. The heater/blower, wipers front and rear, rear demister, indicators and as previously mentioned main beam and dipped beam. I checked the hazard button and the flashers worked, but not with the indicator stalks. I checked the stalk for the main beam and I can flash the main beam but it will not stay on normally. I then checked all the fuses and they were all ok.
So I decided to search the internet for some suggestions and came up with possible relay failure or control module failure. I was leaning more towards relay failure so went about trying to check the relays. The trouble is when I dropped the bottom of the dash and found the relays, which are numbered 53,100,167,206,382,387 and 389. I wasn't sure which relays link which components as I have can't find any diagrams that specifically tell what relay goes where on an S3.
Has anyone had this electrics issue ? Does anyone know what could make all these components stop working at the same time ? Any help would be greatly appreciated thanks.
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