Please help me cost up my salvage *UPDATE*

[doylebros]

Happy to help - Monday but follow it on the tracking at Royal Mail.

[Craigh1983]

That's great.

Just one more thing I should mention as it could help. Obviously after I did the jump start, I went too euro car parts and bought and brand new battery. Got it fitted that same day by a garage and it was actually the day after that the fault happened. So I know I said it could be the jump start that caused fault but could the new battery cause this kind of thing?

John A called euro car parts when he was with my car and they confirmed that it was defo the right battery for it.

[doylebros]

The hard part is to get the car to start and it's doing that after that it's just time and testing!

[Craigh1983]

LOL The glass that was smashed was being replaced today by the garage. Just had a call to say the glass has turned up and they have ordered the wrong one! They said the new one could take 10 days. They said they would fit the one they have and then when the tinted one arrives they will come to my house to re fit the correct one.

Then had another phone call saying that they have managed to source the correct glass and are fitting it tomorrow now and I have to pick my car up on Monday! LOL ARGHHHHHHH Please someone shoot me now!!   

If anyone needs me... I will be over in the corner smashing my head against the brick wall... 

[SI-R32]

we all  feel like that sometimes, i remember when i seized my 2nd engine up on a 306 a year after blowing it up the 1st one, long story......but don't let it get you down mate, everything's fixable at the end of the day and you can always turn to drink to take your sorrows away 

[Craigh1983]

we all  feel like that sometimes, i remember when i seized my 2nd engine up on a 306 a year after blowing it up the 1st one, long story......but don't let it get you down mate, everything's fixable at the end of the day and you can always turn to drink to take your sorrows away 

Glad its not just me then... Already got a bottle in for this evening. Im sure that will cure my headache 

[SkyJawa]

seems to me like nothing to do with the jump start since it happened the day after that and a new battery.............

[Craigh1983]

seems to me like nothing to do with the jump start since it happened the day after that and a new battery.............

Well i'm thinking now that when I had my RCD510 fitted, I had a new can gateway fitted to to stop battery drain. So if this has failed like a few have suggested, I wonder if that is the reason my car battery drained over night twice?

Will be interesting to find out!

[vRSAlex]

The car I had here had no comms to any ecu.  The canbus had a chip inside that had blown up.  Tried a new canbus, this then showed all the ecu's that wouldn't communicate to it.  One by one I stripped them out and they all had blown chips and legs on them.  I even burnt my hand on the fuel pump control module.  It had blown internally and was constantly running to the point some of the plastic has melted.

As Craighs canbus module communicates with VCDS, I would say that it is ok.  CECM is possibly fried and not powering up some of the other modules, or its fried and so are the other modules.

[Craigh1983]

RIGHT...Bit of an update!!

Just been to collect my car from the garage... started it up and the battery was nearly flat as it wouldn't crank over enough to start so they had to jump start it...

Once the car had power I waited for all the faults to happen... (normally they start after a minute or two) After a few minutes everything seemed to be working! After an hours drive home EVERYTHING was still working! Inside fans, wipers, indicators, door locks, all working and the engine fan wasn't spinning up mega fast too like it did before. Turned the engine off when I got home and turned it back on and everything was still working! Even the display were showing the doors were locked correctly.

Surely this means that my modules are not fried like I first thought??? What is going on! lol I think there still must be some kind of fault though for the battery to have gone flat after just a week as its a brand new Exide battery and quite a good one too? Something is obviously draining it quickly.

Does this narrow down what the fault could be though?

[Viking]

Have you scanned it again for faults? That'd be the first thing.

[Craigh1983]

Not yet that is happening this weekend.

[SRC]

This has got to be one of the best threads on this forum. 

In fact (excuse my warped sense of humour here), it's got everything...

The disaster
The kindness of strangers restoring faith in humankind
The happy ever after (I hope I'm not being premature)

Any chance of a love story?  Then we'd have the full house...


Seriously - the very best of luck.

[brookesb32]

This has got to be one of the best threads on this forum. 

In fact (excuse my warped sense of humour here), it's got everything...

The disaster
The kindness of strangers restoring faith in humankind
The happy ever after (I hope I'm not being premature)

Any chance of a love story?  Then we'd have the full house...


Seriously - the very best of luck.

  coming to your screens next autumn

[Richie_101]

This has got to be one of the best threads on this forum. 

In fact (excuse my warped sense of humour here), it's got everything...

The disaster
The kindness of strangers restoring faith in humankind
The happy ever after (I hope I'm not being premature)

Any chance of a love story?  Then we'd have the full house...


Seriously - the very best of luck.

Haha, that was good.

I think a love story is a bit too much to hope for, I'd settle for opening the glove box and finding the bag of Cadbury's Eclairs that he'd forgotten about.

Anyway, best of luck the OP in any event... if you are that lucky, I think your first trip out should be to the newsagents for a scratch card. 

Rich.