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 MartyParty
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 posted on May 26th, 2004 at 12:26 PM |
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Strange goings on in temp town
My Caravlle is funny,
Sometimes the temp gauge starts flashing and the temp needle starts going up. If I turn the ignition off and then on, whist still travelling, then it
settle back to it's happy self.
Sometimes however it will do this every thrity seconds. It's got water, so what's going on? There must be something up?
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| posted on May 26th, 2004 at 12:31 PM |
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could it be a loose connection?
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Anthiron
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| posted on May 26th, 2004 at 12:32 PM |
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could be a faulty sender.....
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MartyParty
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| posted on May 26th, 2004 at 12:33 PM |
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So a loose or faulty sender in the temp gauge you mean?
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| posted on May 26th, 2004 at 12:44 PM |
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the sender is the little thing that is reading the temperture and it sends this up wire or vacumm tube or whatever the hell it uses and this is then
interpreted by you through looking at what the guage reads....it is possible that the sender (sensor thingy) is not reading correctly
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| posted on May 27th, 2004 at 08:17 AM |
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I think you will find you have the dreaded cyl head leakage problem suffered by all vw wbx motors eventually. Will drive you mad. Swore I would not
have it again and fitted subaru to mine. Best thing i ever did car wise and costs less than fixing wbx. Now I have 60% more power, reliability and a
damn fine car again.
let's know how you get on
good luck
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| posted on May 27th, 2004 at 08:42 AM |
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| Quote: | Originally
posted by MartyParty
. If I turn the ignition off and then on, whist still travelling, then it settle back to it's happy self.
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How did you work that trick out????
is this an auto????
Barry
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MartyParty
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| posted on May 27th, 2004 at 05:42 PM |
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I'll try loolking at the sender on the weekend, hopefully that's all it is. If only all templ problems could be tucked away with a simple flick of
the ignition....
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