Here is an article on making your driver's window have "One Touch Up".



If you have a UrS4/S6, '95 A6, or a V8, you can upgrade your car to have the "one touch up" feature on the driver's window, just like the European Audi versions already do.

You may remember that Franco Barber posted something about this some months ago, talking about his '95 A6. He figured out that a swap of the window control unit (relay) and adding one wire would let you have "one touch up" on your driver's window.

( Here's Franco's complete description of this upgrade )



Here's the part numbers Franco figured out:

The original part number in US cars is 441 959 257 B.
The replacement number you need is 441 959 257 D.

Both are double wide relays, and the old one is black with the number 329 stamped on top. The new one is also black, and has the number 347 on top.

The only glitch was getting the European version of the relay. Franco hunted around and around trying to find someone in Europe that could buy and ship him the "D" version relay. Finally, he found a work associate in Rome that sent one over here. The cost in Italy was about $160 plus shipping.

Here's the good news - the European relay is now in the US parts system! Linda at Carlsen can get it to you in only a few days, for just at $200 with their discount.

When you decide to do this, check your window relay for being the US part number with a "B" shown above. And before you install the European "D" relay you have to put a jumper between relay blade connectors '61' and '15'. The connector layout looking at the bottom of the "D" relay is like this:

      87b=    86 -                   KR =
      81 |      87a=      87 |      TKI|      30=
      85 =    SK -      30a-    61 =      15-

Code for blade direction and width:
| is vertical ( all vertical blades are wide )
- is horizontal narrow
= is horizontal wide

On a '93 V8, the window relay is at the top right of the relay group located under the front passenger's floorboard.

With this setup, all of your existing functions should be the same, plus you will have "one touch up" on the driver's window while the ignition key is turned on.



Information added 2/23/2002 - PLEASE READ ...
We have had a report that a -D part window module, imported from Germany in mid-late 2001, and with a date code in the year 2000, does not support the one-touch-up mode. Everything else about the module worked fine. So far, we only have the one example, and we don't know if it was a defective part, or if it signals a design change put out by Audi/VW without changing the part number! Of the other modules we have seen, the latest date code that we know worked properly is a 1996 date code, and this module was bought at an Audi dealer, in Munchen, in 1998. If you go to buy a -D part to get the one-touch-up, you might want to check the date code of the actual part you're going to buy, and try to get some sort of return privelege if the part turns out to not operate in the way that it should. And get it in writing :-(