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'Flicking' temp gauge and broken fuel swingometer...

Posted: Fri Feb 15, 2008 7:12 pm
by MrDazzle
Hi,

My gauges are doing funny things. The temp gauge works 99% of the time, but every so often (maybe once every day or two) it will drop to 0 for a fraction of a second, then jump back to where it was.

The fuel swingometer is also playing up. It sits on the stop on a trailing throttle, or when you're driving gently.....if you put your foot down it drops to about 10mpg. It's like it's working normally, but it's got a 40mpg margin of error.

It's been like this since I had the service lights re-set. It was done by another zoner, but I'm not sure how he did it.

I'm guessing there's a dodgy connection or something?

Cheers.

Re: 'Flicking' temp gauge and broken fuel swingometer...

Posted: Fri Feb 15, 2008 7:47 pm
by bmania
it could be your ecu coming to end of life

Re: 'Flicking' temp gauge and broken fuel swingometer...

Posted: Fri Feb 15, 2008 8:35 pm
by smithy318i
bmania wrote:it could be your ecu coming to end of life
Nope, nothing to do with the ECU.
I'm guessing there's a dodgy connection or something?
7mm nut on the back of the cluster probably needs tightening.

Also, dying SI board batteries (on VDO clusters) cause a lot of faults with the tacho and mpg meter.

Re: 'Flicking' temp gauge and broken fuel swingometer...

Posted: Fri Feb 15, 2008 8:52 pm
by bmania
sorry i meant the si board batteries coming to end of life. my heads somewhere else today. :D