No Power

[TomA]

Got in my car yesterday, put the key  in the ignition and turned it, all normal dashboard lights  came up, but when turned to start the engine, all power vanished?

All lights went off on the dashboard, car wouldn't start, no radio, windows or anything. wouldn't even lock with the central locking using the key. had absolutely nothing. kept  putting the key in and trying to start but  no power whatsoever.

Spent about half  an hour looking over everything, found no obvious fault, then power randomly came back?

The clocks and trip  counters on the display  had reset, it had also reset all the milage and mpg of my set 2 on the hud?

Radio had reset to default radio stations, mixer  settings etc?

Car  has run fine since but am concerned as to what may cause this? Has anyone else had a similiar problem/know what it may be?

Cheers. 

[GTI-Pirelli]

I would start by checking the condition of the battery and the connections to it.
All the resets that you described would happen if the battery was disconnected. Colder temperatures kill weaker batteries. I think there are a few places that will do a free battery check such as Halfords.
Some VW garages do free winter health check which may include the battery.

Good luck 

[Degudodger]

Had the same with a previous car, if fact it was roughly the same time of year as well. I had driven about 20ish miles without fault, parked up for 1-2 hours but when i went to start the car later absolutely nothing. Called out the RAC (i was out in the sticks at the time) who confirmed a dead battery which was replaced on the spot for £90.

[garrardrj]

Just replaced my battery £71.10 Eurocarpars after 25% discount  a Bosch S4 , my car did what you said your car did . Get  a cheap multimeter abd check yourself the quality of your battery