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Title: Electricals still playing up
Post by: Tazzy on 21 November 2010, 22:49

its all getting worst on my mk4

ive got no speedo at all
it has trouble starting, and makes a funny noise when it does
when i turn the key, theres a clicking noise coming from behind the dash, it can also be heard from the engine bay

any ideas what it could be?

thanks

Title: Re: Electricals still playing up
Post by: Ktuludays on 22 November 2010, 11:55

sounds like the battery is knackered to me!

Title: Re: Electricals still playing up
Post by: Tazzy on 22 November 2010, 12:16

would the battery cause the speedo to not work though?

the speedo will sometimes stay at zero, and sometimes it was go up and down and not pick up the speed that im doing

Title: Re: Electricals still playing up
Post by: Adam on 26 November 2010, 00:12

Woldn't say battery. More than likely a bad earth somewhere.

Title: Re: Electricals still playing up
Post by: Tazzy on 01 December 2010, 21:38

a 4th problem has occured along side the other 3 with this issue

sometimes, not all the time, even though it has trouble starting all the time, the clock on the dash somestimes resets to 00:00

Title: Re: Electricals still playing up
Post by: braderz on 01 December 2010, 22:00

might be worth a note, when my battery died stone dead the speedo made a really loud noise like it was rewinding or something, was fine when the battery was charged after

Title: Re: Electricals still playing up
Post by: Tazzy on 06 December 2010, 09:08

- ive got no speedo at all, it will sometimes stay at zero, and sometimes it was go up and down and not pick up the speed that im doing

- it has trouble starting, and makes a funny noise when it does

- when i turn the key, theres a clicking noise coming from behind the dash, it can also be heard from the engine bay

- sometimes, not all the time, even though it has trouble starting all the time, the clock on the dash somestimes resets to 00:00

- sometimes idles at 11k

- clicking from behind clocks also occurs when driving

adding onto all these problems, yesderday night it go so bad, i broke down in walsall, just as i was leaving a carpark, the electrics cut out, steering locked up just as i was coming towards an island, managed to miss it mind, but then the car wouldnt start at all, and had to call on some mates to rescue me

one of which asked me if i had filled up that day, funnilly enough i had filled up at morrisons, he said it may be a bad batch so just needed clearing out

any more ideas?

thanks

Title: Re: Electricals still playing up
Post by: Tazzy on 06 December 2010, 22:42

does anyone know anything about mk4 ecus? ie, where theyre located? make? etc?

got the car booked in at thor racing on wednesday hopefully to sort the problem

thanks