Delinquent
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| posted on 26/4/08 at 10:06 AM |
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Woohoo! It works! Now I'll just.... oh @#?£!
Don't you just hate it - that moment when you KNOW you're going to f##k something up, but something inside you insists you do it
anyway?
I decided to repair my Audi central locking in true Locost style. A new pump unit is £350+, a second hand one, even on ebay, can get £150 and has
exactly the same fault that makes them so hard to get hold of, so will probably fail soon after anyway.
So I bought an Audi 80 pump on ebay. It's completely different, lacking 90% of the electronics but in essence contains a pump... At 99p it was
worth the gamble 
Postie arrived at 10 bearing gifts in small brown boxes. 15 minutes later I'd removed the pump motor and unit, examined, and discovered I could
just whip the end off the motor and install on my unit, then blank off one air outlet and modify the other  (they are key coded so you can't
just swap entire units about)
15 minutes later and a rough hash is in the car - press the blip, woohoo, it works
Now I'll just take it back out and reassemble properly.
Did I tighten that screw? I think I did. I'll just check.
Snap. Pump unit cracks through.
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chrisg
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| posted on 26/4/08 at 10:20 AM |
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I find copuius swearing tends to help in these situations!
Hard luck mate
Chris
Note to all: I really don't know when to leave well alone. I tried to get clever with the mods, then when they gave me a lifeline to see the
error of my ways, I tried to incite more trouble via u2u. So now I'm banned, never to return again. They should have done it years ago!
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zilspeed
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| posted on 26/4/08 at 11:00 AM |
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Araldite ?
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tks
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| posted on 26/4/08 at 12:26 PM |
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always if you doubt first looseupt he screw and then retight....
the best retight method is to start from loose because then you know the force you are apling, alse you only know how much it wont move unther...and
we all start pushing until it rotates..
tks
p.s. wich material is the housing off??
araldite, glue pistol, aluminium weld...
etc. etc.
[Edited on 26/4/08 by tks]
The above comments are always meant to be from the above persons perspective.
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Mr Whippy
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| posted on 26/4/08 at 02:16 PM |
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i'm sure these are the audi's that you can open by putting a rubber sink plunger against the key hole, give it a pump and the car unlocks.
It's nice to see the germans doing something low tec for a change 
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Delinquent
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| posted on 26/4/08 at 07:23 PM |
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unfortunately it's a graphite disc inside, and when the case broke... so did that. It's a bin job.
Normally I'd indeed use the loosen-to-check method but this morning it was one of those "quick jobs" before an appointment that
wasn't quite as quick as I'd hoped!
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