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HELP - Currently broken down
« on: June 11, 2019, 06:39:21 pm »
Sat here waiting for green flag to come out to my car but wondered if anyone could shed some light on the issues I’ve had.

Driving home tonight the abs and traction light started flashing on and off. Then every light including stop and engine oil pressure warning came on. Had my lights on so dashboard was illuminated but this was flicking on and off. Car was driving fine but decided to pull over and turn it off then on. Car would start up for a few seconds then cut out.

Bit of research seems to suggest could be the cluster? Could it just be a fuse?

Any help would be appreciated
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Re: HELP - Currently broken down
« Reply #1 on: June 11, 2019, 06:55:13 pm »
Also while this was going out speedo and rev counter were dropping to 0 then back up to speed
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Re: HELP - Currently broken down
« Reply #2 on: June 11, 2019, 07:11:07 pm »
Is car DSg???
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Re: HELP - Currently broken down
« Reply #3 on: June 11, 2019, 07:23:24 pm »
Sorry forgot to say it’s manual mk5 gti
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Re: HELP - Currently broken down
« Reply #4 on: June 11, 2019, 07:36:38 pm »
I'd guess battery or alternator.
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Re: HELP - Currently broken down
« Reply #5 on: June 11, 2019, 07:37:43 pm »
If it was dsg and everything lit up like a Christmas tree I was going to say gearbox.........but ignore me now!!!!  :jumping: :love: :love:
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Re: HELP - Currently broken down
« Reply #6 on: June 11, 2019, 07:44:20 pm »
Quote from: shail on June 11, 2019, 07:36:38 pm
I'd guess battery or alternator.

It had a new varta battery couple of month ago, breakdown guy said could be alternator at a guess. Dropped it off at my local garage so will ring them in morning
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Re: HELP - Currently broken down
« Reply #7 on: June 12, 2019, 08:39:57 am »
The garage have said they will try to look at it today. But have said if its the cluster that's faulty they can't fix it, it will have to go to VW.

Hopefully not as I can imagine a new cluster supplied and fitted from VW won't be cheap!
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Re: HELP - Currently broken down
« Reply #8 on: June 12, 2019, 10:00:50 am »
If its the cluster take a look at BBA RE-Man they repair and or replace them Lot cheaper than dealer
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Re: HELP - Currently broken down
« Reply #9 on: June 12, 2019, 10:15:40 am »
Quote from: titchy on June 12, 2019, 10:00:50 am
If its the cluster take a look at BBA RE-Man they repair and or replace them Lot cheaper than dealer

thanks, these guys? http://www.bba-reman.com/gb/index.aspx
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Re: HELP - Currently broken down
« Reply #10 on: June 12, 2019, 11:42:53 am »
Yeah they work from u.k se well
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Re: HELP - Currently broken down
« Reply #11 on: June 12, 2019, 01:19:51 pm »
Where abouts are you?

VW retrofit in Redditch can probably fix it for you.

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Re: HELP - Currently broken down
« Reply #12 on: June 12, 2019, 01:37:43 pm »
Quote from: ady-uk on June 12, 2019, 01:19:51 pm
Where abouts are you?

VW retrofit in Redditch can probably fix it for you.

@olsen-72

Nottingham based so not a million miles away, thanks
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Re: HELP - Currently broken down
« Reply #13 on: June 13, 2019, 02:57:38 pm »
So the garage have just rang me and are scratching their heads a bit. They have scanned the car and found faults in every control unit on the car (think there are 16) apart from the stereo. Apparently 6-7 fault codes in each unit and seemingly each unit is not talking with each other.

They've cleared the codes and dash lights and the car now starts and runs but have got an electrician there now trying to get to the bottom of it as it will probably happen again.

Anyone had anything similar? Sign of the Dash cluster failing?

« Last Edit: June 13, 2019, 02:59:21 pm by jgalla89 »
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Re: HELP - Currently broken down
« Reply #14 on: June 13, 2019, 03:07:15 pm »
also mentioned something about gateway coding looking like it was wrong...
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