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Re: Big problem with electrics
Posted: 01 Sep 2012, 11:21
by hawkeye
Cleaned all the earth,s and refitted new earth strap to gearbox but can,t find the engine earth above in engine bay or below ?
Checked where mentioned i.e. no earth to left of air filter , anyone got a pic of location on the diesels if different to petrol
engined ?
Horn is now working so thats a plus point but only warning light is temp and diesel preheat .
lights are working but when I put headlights on the indicators stop working ,so will go through the earth,s on them today .
Re: Big problem with electrics
Posted: 01 Sep 2012, 19:02
by hawkeye
well i,ve gone through cleaning / replacing the earth,s and other than the horn now working there is no change so gone back to Wiki guide and simular probs . and found that it could be the ign. switch at fault , is there a way of testing it and how easy are they to change ?
Re: Big problem with electrics
Posted: 03 Sep 2012, 08:39
by hawkeye
hawkeye wrote:After reading the wiki guide I,m thinking I should change the earth straps from body to engine and gearbox to body , can I pick them up at a local motorfactor or will i have to go to a VW main dealer and where do I get those earth crowns ?
when I started it this morning the Ignition/batt light came on but stayed on , can,t make it all out !
Re: Big problem with electrics
Posted: 10 Sep 2012, 15:59
by hawkeye
hawkeye wrote:After reading the wiki guide I,m thinking I should change the earth straps from body to engine and gearbox to body , can I pick them up at a local motorfactor or will i have to go to a VW main dealer and where do I get those earth crowns ?
cleaned and or changed earth,s some improvement in that ign light coming on and preheat light works sometimes , checked rad. fan that it works ok but its still not cutting in as temp climbs up to 3/4 mark on guage so going to bleed rad next as only bott. of it getting hot now ,
got most of dash stripped so will check out heater fan too see if i can get it working .
