Audi Workshop Service and Repair Manuals

Special tools and workshop equipment required

• ◆ VAS 5051 with VAS 5051/1

Note:

On vehicles with gas-discharge headlights, fault memory must be interrogated and erased and basic setting then performed prior to making any manual adjustments at the adjusting screws.

Requirement:

• ● Vehicle diagnostic, testing and information system VAS 5051 connected up; vehicle self-diagnosis and vehicle system "55 - Headlight range control" selected

Sequence of operations

→ Display on VAS 5051:

• ‒ From list -1- select diagnosis function "04 - Basic setting".

→ Display on VAS 5051:

•     1 -    Enter display group

• ‒ Use keypad -2- to enter "001" for "Display group number 001" and confirm by touching Q key.

→ Display on VAS 5051:

•     1 -    Basic setting
•     2 -    Display group 1
•     3 -    Wait

• ◆ Headlights are moved to adjustment position

• ‒ Wait until next display appears.

•     3 -    Headlight adjustment

• ◆ Headlights are now in adjustment position

Note:

Basic setting 1 deactivates control mode and "Headlights not adjusted" is entered in fault memory.

→ Adjusting screws at left headlight

The arrangement at the right headlight is a mirror image.

•     1 -    Height/lateral adjustment screw
•     2 -    Height adjustment screw

• ‒ To adjust height, give adjusting screws -1- and -2- the same number of turns.
• ‒ For lateral adjustment, only turn adjusting screw -1-.

→ Display on VAS 5051:

• ‒ Touch s key to switch to display group 002.

•     1 -    Basic setting
•     2 -    Display group 2
•     3 -    Control position learnt
• ‒ Control unit now recognises this position as being the control position

Note:

Entry in fault memory ("Headlights not adjusted") is erased and control mode re-activated.

• ‒ Terminate function "04 - Basic setting" by touching ◂ key.

→ Display on VAS 5051:

• ‒ From list -1- select diagnosis function "06 - End of output".