[JustJeff]

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I believe the adjusting suspension was a S4 thing? My S5 convertible doens't have one.

I ended up grounding to the battery while I was working out the wiring on the fan. I couldn't figure out why I was blowing fuses and grounded directly to the battery simply to assure myself that my ground was solid and used a 40a resetting circuit breaker cause I was tired of replacing my fuses.

Nice heads up on the relay socket, never thought to look for a socket separate. I'll google for one with 10ga wires. My relay came with a socket but I didn't want to solder down from 10ga wiring to whatever was on my relay, probably 12 or 14ga. I was expecting to be able to insert my female ends into the socket that came with my relay, but it didn't work out that way.

One concern I have with my thermoswitch is that temps are getting disturbingly high before the fan kicks on. It's a Starion switch which IIRC is a 195 on switch, and it's not coming on till around 205-210. It seems like temps creep higher as the fan toggles off and on. Temps will drop down to just under 200 and the fan will toggle off. But then my temp gauge will be reading like 215ish before it toggles back on. I'm in the habit of using my manual switch because I don't trust my thermoswitch. Perhaps the funky on and off was related to my sporadic short on my +12V IGN?