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  1. Re: 2005 Traction Control Warning Light Comes on and Stays on 
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    Thanks to dump valve on the TDI forum I may have solved the issue but I can't test it. due to the other issue....

    Traction Control Light:
    advised by Dump value to jack up the car on the Left hand side (passenger) and take off the under tray. In between the gear box and the bottom of the radiator there is a connector mounted on a bracket with with two thin wires (blue and purple) going into it these wire have designed to fail written all over them - they are two of the thinest wires I've ever seen taped to another larger cable which puts all of its weight on to them.

    Anyway the purple wire had snapped and i cleaned it up and then reconnected the two ends, taped everything up with electrical tape and then taped the wires up onto another tube of wires to transfer the weight. So hopefully I've sorted that.

    Problem number two ( glowplug warning light) looks like a braking system problem - I got my glamorous assistant, my wife, to go press the brake pedal and there was no lights. So I've popped the brake light switch off and ordered a new one off of ebay - so I can't test the TCS yet...
     
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  2. Re: 2005 Traction Control Warning Light Comes on and Stays on 
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    Faulty brake light switch 99p fix
     
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  3. Re: 2005 Traction Control Warning Light Comes on and Stays on 
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    Quote Originally Posted by Waddellg View Post
    Thanks to dump valve on the TDI forum I may have solved the issue but I can't test it. due to the other issue....

    Traction Control Light:
    advised by Dump value to jack up the car on the Left hand side (passenger) and take off the under tray. In between the gear box and the bottom of the radiator there is a connector mounted on a bracket with with two thin wires (blue and purple) going into it these wire have designed to fail written all over them - they are two of the thinest wires I've ever seen taped to another larger cable which puts all of its weight on to them.

    Anyway the purple wire had snapped and i cleaned it up and then reconnected the two ends, taped everything up with electrical tape and then taped the wires up onto another tube of wires to transfer the weight. So hopefully I've sorted that.

    Problem number two ( glowplug warning light) looks like a braking system problem - I got my glamorous assistant, my wife, to go press the brake pedal and there was no lights. So I've popped the brake light switch off and ordered a new one off of ebay - so I can't test the TCS yet...
    Hi

    I'm having very similar problems with an A3. Did this fault go away?
     
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  4. Re: 2005 Traction Control Warning Light Comes on and Stays on 
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    Hi,
    It was the two broken wires, I reconnected them and the fault hasn't returned - the brake light switch was an easy fix too.

    Not sure about where the wires would be in an audi, but worth looking in the same spot as the Seat... Treated myself to a VW 6 disc in dash changer
     
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    he is robbing you, or he don't know anything, i think the 1st one is correct.
    it's just a sensor fault.
     
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