Interior lights, windows and sunroof do not work

Tiny
VISCOL
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  • 2001 AUDI A6
  • 126,000 MILES
When I first received the car, everything worked, now the interior lights do not work, the power windows do not work and the sunroof does not work. It seems like its a fuse problem but I cannot locate the fuse box only the harnesses.
Saturday, June 8th, 2013 AT 2:19 PM

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Tiny
JACOBANDNICKOLAS
  • MECHANIC
  • 108,117 POSTS
If you have an owner's manual, check there for fuse box location. Also, there are main fuses under the hood of the vehicle.
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Sunday, June 9th, 2013 AT 8:27 AM
Tiny
JSCHLUNG
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I had the exact same issue on my 1999 A6. On the instrument panel I saw a symbol that looked like a door was open on my car. For mine, it was saying that the back door was opened (which it clearly wasn't). I found that the problem was with the wiring under the seat for the rear foot well lights. I unplugged both the driver and passenger side rear foot well lights (located under there respective seats). This fixed the problem right away.

From what I understand, there is an issue with the way the wiring is routed and when the seat gets moved repeatedly over the years it wears a bare spot in the wire causing a fuse to blow. Unfortunately for me, replacing the fuse doesn't fix the problem. I went through 8 fuses in under a week trying to track down the problem.
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Tuesday, July 8th, 2014 AT 8:14 PM

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