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Originally Posted by davow
Went through a bit of water the other night in the gt5 coupe, nothing too deep but a lot of water on the road and thought something might have got a bit damp  , went out again later and she was driving fine then she just died on me and couldnt get her started again. left her for ten mins or so and she eventually started again then got her home. next morning she started fine, warmed her up then set off for work, got about 4 miles down the road and then she just died again! no splutter or missing or anything, just no power dash lights comne on and i grind to a holt! took dizzy off and cleaned up rotor arm, no moisture or corrosion present, tried her a few times and she eventually started, got her to work and then popped her over to the local garage to see if there were any obvious signs.
went back in the afternoon and they tell me ive got no wipers, lights, or
electric windows, they think the problem with it stopping is the ignition leads (which they cant get hold of!) but dont know why ive now got no power to the fuse box! so i leave it with them for another day and finally get her back no better than when i dropped her off (in fact worse off as they gave me a bill!  ) I fitted new leads tonight and she seemed to be running fine then she cut out! Im thinking its the coil??? any ideas please?:  |
What kind of garage cant get any lights, wipers or electric windows and then diagnoses ignition leads?
The rip off kind.
If theres "no power" at the fusebox, then id be looking at battery leads and earths to start with.
There may be a corroded earth cable thats creating this fault and the driving thru water could have initiated its further failures.
For the stopping problem, get yourself a hairdryer and start the engine as normal, and play the heat on the ignition amplifier ( its under the scuttle panel) and is a little oblong moulded package attached to an alloy heatsink.
Warm it up with the engine running and see if it suddenly stops after a few minutes.
Quite a common kind of fault with older Fords etc where the amp fails when warm but is ok again when cold.
Other than that, youre into looking at fuses and checking for wiring faults.
Also make sure the multiplugs at the back of the fuseboard arent loose or burned out, i had that twice on my old gt with a failure to run and with all the electrics bar the engine power circuits failing and that turned out to be the fusebox burned out.
Audi used to use an old printed circuit board type that was quite frankly- crap but replaced it later on with a sold brass buss bar item that never seems to die.