Dash stopped working

audicoup · 24-02-11, 06:14 PM

Hi all, I got my audi coupe back from the garage today and the temp guage, petrol and rev counter are dead. The speedo is intermittent and the little clock works fine. Also, my indicators don't work and the battery light is on.

Hazards work fine as do headlights (though they have broken an adjuster) but very strange is that when I put the main beam on, the radio comes on???

This is either the car being very grumpy with me for putting him away over winter or something has gone seriously wrong.

Does anyone have any suggestions? I don't really fancy taking it back to the garage.

The car is a 1985 1.8 ds engine.

missfire · 24-02-11, 07:28 PM

full of water..?

what were they working on..?

audicoup · 24-02-11, 08:08 PM

They changed the rocker cover, gasket etc. They pressure washed it cause there was loads of oil on the engine.

BIGGYIN · 24-02-11, 08:12 PM

Prats.
I'd be straight back,down there.

BIGGYIN · 24-02-11, 08:14 PM

[quote=audicoup;200732]They changed the rocker cover, gasket etc.
Did they do it,while the engine was running?

Hanuman · 24-02-11, 08:14 PM

Strangely enough, I was thinking a swamped fuse box. I take it it's in the same place, left side, just in front/below the windscreen/scuttle?

audicoup · 24-02-11, 08:15 PM

Problem is when I rang them to explain the problem, they said that they had done work in the engine bay and nowhere near the electrics. The car has cost be £275 already this week and if they won't take responsibility for it I don't know how much more I can keep paying out! Was hoping it might be a cheap fix ie fuses or relays etc

Audi Derek · 24-02-11, 08:18 PM

Try and get an air line and blow the water from the fuse/relay compartment top (in the engine bay) and bottom (inside the car) then spray some WD40 around the same places.

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audicoup · 24-02-11, 08:20 PM

Thanks for the replys all. I shall try and concentrate on the fuse box tomorrow. Would this problem also cause the radio to come on when main beam is put on though? Is it all linked to the electrics playing silly buggers?

Hanuman · 24-02-11, 08:23 PM

Take a look inside the fuse box, make a note of everything, relay locations. look for water.

Assuming it is swamped, if it was me, i would lift out the fuse box relay plate. I think it's just 2 screws.
unplug the relays, fuses.
and try and dry it. Hair drier only.

24-02-11, 08:12 PM	#4
BIGGYIN 4 ring whore! Classic Audi Club Member Join Date: Mar 2009 Location: Merseyside Posts: 7,976	Prats. I'd be straight back,down there. __________________ q90 B2 Type 85 - q90 B2 Type 85-PROJECT-ABY 20vt KARL. Injection is nice but I'd rather be blown

24-02-11, 08:14 PM	#5
BIGGYIN 4 ring whore! Classic Audi Club Member Join Date: Mar 2009 Location: Merseyside Posts: 7,976	Joke. [quote=audicoup;200732]They changed the rocker cover, gasket etc. Did they do it,while the engine was running? __________________ q90 B2 Type 85 - q90 B2 Type 85-PROJECT-ABY 20vt KARL. Injection is nice but I'd rather be blown

24-02-11, 08:14 PM	#6
Hanuman Trickster Classic Audi Club Member Join Date: May 2009 Location: Heckling from the cheap seats, Phnom Penh, KoW Posts: 7,006	Strangely enough, I was thinking a swamped fuse box. I take it it's in the same place, left side, just in front/below the windscreen/scuttle? __________________ I wish they would keep the damned Chinese away now that I can go home, so that I can enjoy Fish amok and a draught Angkor

24-02-11, 08:18 PM	#8
Audi Derek “Been raced and rallied” Classic Audi Club Member Join Date: May 2008 Location: Bridgwater Somerset Posts: 1,431	Try and get an air line and blow the water from the fuse/relay compartment top (in the engine bay) and bottom (inside the car) then spray some WD40 around the same places. .. __________________ Vorspurng durch Technik (see it does work)

24-02-11, 08:23 PM	#10
Hanuman Trickster Classic Audi Club Member Join Date: May 2009 Location: Heckling from the cheap seats, Phnom Penh, KoW Posts: 7,006	Take a look inside the fuse box, make a note of everything, relay locations. look for water. Assuming it is swamped, if it was me, i would lift out the fuse box relay plate. I think it's just 2 screws. unplug the relays, fuses. and try and dry it. Hair drier only. __________________ I wish they would keep the damned Chinese away now that I can go home, so that I can enjoy Fish amok and a draught Angkor

24-02-11, 07:28 PM	#2
missfire making wooden things Classic Audi Club Member Join Date: Dec 2009 Location: cow land Posts: 8,154	full of water..? what were they working on..?

24-02-11, 08:08 PM	#3
audicoup Grown up member Join Date: Jun 2010 Posts: 109	They changed the rocker cover, gasket etc. They pressure washed it cause there was loads of oil on the engine.

24-02-11, 08:15 PM	#7
audicoup Grown up member Join Date: Jun 2010 Posts: 109	Problem is when I rang them to explain the problem, they said that they had done work in the engine bay and nowhere near the electrics. The car has cost be £275 already this week and if they won't take responsibility for it I don't know how much more I can keep paying out! Was hoping it might be a cheap fix ie fuses or relays etc

24-02-11, 08:20 PM	#9
audicoup Grown up member Join Date: Jun 2010 Posts: 109	Thanks for the replys all. I shall try and concentrate on the fuse box tomorrow. Would this problem also cause the radio to come on when main beam is put on though? Is it all linked to the electrics playing silly buggers?