MK5 Golf GTI
All Things Mk5 => Mk5 General Area => Topic started by: jgalla89 on June 11, 2019, 06:39:21 pm
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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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Also while this was going out speedo and rev counter were dropping to 0 then back up to speed
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Is car DSg???
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Sorry forgot to say it’s manual mk5 gti
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I'd guess battery or alternator.
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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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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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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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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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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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Yeah they work from u.k se well
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Where abouts are you?
VW retrofit in Redditch can probably fix it for you.
@olsen-72 (https://www.mk5golfgti.co.uk/forum/index.php?action=profile;u=4567)
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Where abouts are you?
VW retrofit in Redditch can probably fix it for you.
@olsen-72 (https://www.mk5golfgti.co.uk/forum/index.php?action=profile;u=4567)
Nottingham based so not a million miles away, thanks
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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?
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also mentioned something about gateway coding looking like it was wrong...
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First thing id do is check the ccm and see if there are any loose connectors or water ingress
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First thing id do is check the ccm and see if there are any loose connectors or water ingress
Thanks but sorry what's the CCM ? is this the comfort control module?
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Yes that's the one. Also referred to as Central Convenience Module
https://www.mk5golfgti.co.uk/forum/index.php/topic,110832.msg1070633.html#msg1070633
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So to sum up where I am so far. Garage were getting same problems as me last Wednesday but didn't have time to look at it. Came out to it Thursday morning and the car started straight away. All the dash error lights were on so they scanned the car and came up with a number of faults as mentioned earlier in thread. They cleared them and the car starts and runs fine and has continued to do since then (the lad has been taking it on road tests to try and get the same issues).
I said could they get their auto electrician to go over the car and try and find the issue. He has finally had chance this morning and can find no issues whatsoever. So getting the car back later today.
Not sure what has caused the issue, whether due to the amount of rain, water had got in somewhere. Remains to be seen whether it will come back to bite me in the coming days/weeks....
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Perhaps a long shot but you could check the canbus gateway in the dash behind the drivers side fuse box/above the pedals.
I've heard of these getting wet after windscreen replacements, but maybe you could have developed a leak for no particular reason? I think this module is connected to pretty much every other in the car and so could cause havok?
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Perhaps a long shot but you could check the canbus gateway in the dash behind the drivers side fuse box/above the pedals.
I've heard of these getting wet after windscreen replacements, but maybe you could have developed a leak for no particular reason? I think this module is connected to pretty much every other in the car and so could cause havok?
Good point, Its not had a windscreen replacement but I'll look at the seals and I will take a look around the area above the pedals.
With all the rain at the moment shouldn't be too hard to notice a leak!
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Bit of a thread revival. After 3 months of having no issues with the car, it decided to let me down again at midnight on a wet Sunday night at airport parking having just landed home from holiday.
This time no dash warning lights but car would start then die after a few seconds. Got recovered home and came back a week later and the car started and ran fine. Took it to my usual garage and have had the the dash cluster sent off to be tested but they’ve come back and said they can’t find any issues with it.
Garage are getting the auto electrician back in to look over the car but I was wondering whether anyone has had similar issues before?
I’m going to get them to look at the CCM as suggested in June but would the CCM issue be giving me the problems I’m getting?
Also not sure if it’s related or could be part of the problem but for the past 6/7 months sometimes the car key will lock all the doors except the drivers side. It started 4/5 months ago to every now and then Set the alarm off when you tried to lock the car first time round but then locks it on the second go on the fob.
Any help or advice would be greatly appreciated as started to get frustrated as I can’t trust the car at the moment!