Chris
12-08-2004, 10:17 PM
I hope this isn't the wrong section.. I figured it was here or gadget tech. This is long for those with small attention spans.
Story goes as follows: Bought the car(90 tsi awd) with the flip ups up, no big deal to me at the time. Today I think.. wow that really looks gay with the lights up but no lights on. So I take the switch out and swap it with the one in my 91 parts car hoping that will work, nothing. While I was at it.. took the spring out of the fog lamp switch so those actually stay on now.
Then I get the brillant idea of switching the motors. Get the motor out and go to put it in. Surprise.. the 90's have a different plug. I knew 90's have specific parts for the year, but that was kinda ridiculous.
So I am asking for some suggestions on what to do.
Here's some cliff notes and other facts: Replaced the switch with a known working switch, replaced the fuse/relay thing out of a known working fuse box, tried to switch motors and 90's have a different plug than the 91, flip ups do go up, but not down. I manually cranked them down today for the 'lazy eye' effect, but when I hit the switch to turn them on, they went up.
It's probably something electrical between the switch and the motor. I don't want to waste my time splicing the plugs only to have it still not work.
I saw on the web somewhere when I was searching a guy took out the motors and lamps and put in HID's into the lower lense thing.. I liked that, but an expensive alternative to something that seems like it would be fairly simple.
Anyways, if you have any suggestions, send them to me on AIM: Village Torcher or reply on here or just email me. Whatever works. Thanks for reading.
Story goes as follows: Bought the car(90 tsi awd) with the flip ups up, no big deal to me at the time. Today I think.. wow that really looks gay with the lights up but no lights on. So I take the switch out and swap it with the one in my 91 parts car hoping that will work, nothing. While I was at it.. took the spring out of the fog lamp switch so those actually stay on now.
Then I get the brillant idea of switching the motors. Get the motor out and go to put it in. Surprise.. the 90's have a different plug. I knew 90's have specific parts for the year, but that was kinda ridiculous.
So I am asking for some suggestions on what to do.
Here's some cliff notes and other facts: Replaced the switch with a known working switch, replaced the fuse/relay thing out of a known working fuse box, tried to switch motors and 90's have a different plug than the 91, flip ups do go up, but not down. I manually cranked them down today for the 'lazy eye' effect, but when I hit the switch to turn them on, they went up.
It's probably something electrical between the switch and the motor. I don't want to waste my time splicing the plugs only to have it still not work.
I saw on the web somewhere when I was searching a guy took out the motors and lamps and put in HID's into the lower lense thing.. I liked that, but an expensive alternative to something that seems like it would be fairly simple.
Anyways, if you have any suggestions, send them to me on AIM: Village Torcher or reply on here or just email me. Whatever works. Thanks for reading.