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I can't take credit for this workaround, but wanted to share it since I did a lot of searching, youtube, et al (and wasted a lot of time.)

My A6 L had the "Adaptive Light Defective" message. I bought a replacement headlight on eBay (with APS), pulled the bumper, replaced the light and got the same message. Turns out both headlights had the same problem (worn and broken wires inside the headlight.) I dremeled the heck out of the replacement light but there just isn't enough room (at least for me) to repair the wiring. There isn't enough slack, and in my case the broken wires were simply too close to the connections to do a repair.

My wife has a A6 L and this message just popped up on her car -- so I had two cars requiring expensive headlights or the super-annoying message on the dash flashing constantly. I'm surprised that Audi would require a constant, flashing error on an issue that moves your headlight a small amount right or left but what do I know.

Regardless -- you can disable this message by recoding the car as a non-APS car and pulling two fuses. I can't take credit for the solution below, but can confirm it worked for me on both of

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