mattyboyc

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Hey Matt,

Thats ashame. We will have to meet up and go for a drive someday when I can finally drive the A6.

And thanks, heres hoping Sunday goes as planned!

Speak to you soon,
Chris.

hope thats of help

part three
The connector may have been above the radio between the two vents??
At each vent, I checked each connection as I made it for correct polarisation - lights on/off. If no illumination turn connector through 180 degrees. Best to use colour wires for connector to gauge orientation, i.e. black = 0v, Blue = +12v(var.)
I would recommend putting in a couple of spare illumination wires behind the coin holder and cup holder - you may have the illumination there ready to connect should you come across a replacement part off fleabay at a later date - that's what I did for these two later items

part two
The connector housings (10x part no. 865606) and female pin inserts (100x part no, 1022219)
Approx. £6.60 plus P&P
I soldered the wires to the crimp pins
1 housing per vent and 2 pins per vent.
Then it was just a simple case of feeding the wires to the 3 vent connection points, passenger side, twin vents above radio and drivers side and back to the light switch.
Now the centre vent connection when I did it was easier since I did this when I had the complete centre console out - I was doing a single to double din change at that time. Take a look first from the glovebox aperture as I seem to recall you can see the wires to the left side vent icon?.

does this help ;-) This is what I did then.For easy access I took the glove box out (6 bolts), and cover between the steering wheel and pedals (2 bolts The Dash illumination uses a +12v variable voltage (dimmable) feed, I sourced this off the main light switch, pin 10 (brown) is 0v and pin 17 (grey/blue) is the var. 12v fedding all dash led lights.
The vents have a 2 pin male pin connector located on them which are 0.1" pitch. Now I could have sourced the correct polarised connector from Audi but this did seem a little bit unnecessary. I actually used a computer type connector typically used on PC motherboards which was very small and would fit in the existing Audi vent connector. The only caution was that it was not polarised - i.e. if connected the the wrong way round the illumination led would not light - remedy change the connector to the correct orientation - leds should not be damaged.
I sourced parts from http://www.farnell.com

Hi I'm in Aldershot about 30miles south of london, Junc 4 m3

Hi again, where exactly are you in the country?