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I live in an 11 year old house with an ASHP. It’s great when things are working well but it has been a pain in the arse. My electricity bills treble or quadruple during the winter but then they are near nothing in the summer (thermal solar as well). Ideally you need to make sure it’s set up correctly as this can cause cost issues - for instance mine was set to heat the hot water too hot which meant it ran continuously to try and get to a temperature it couldn’t reach. If flows are not good to each zone this can cause similar problems and hence give you higher bills.

I had problems when I turned on the passenger side rear fog via the OBD. It worked initially then stopped and it threw up an error. No matter what I did I couldn’t resolve it so just switched it off again. Now just drivers side works but no problems.

Mine is 15 years old and I had one go after about year 3 and then again at say like year 10. Easy to change but be careful as the clips can break the plastic which could mean a new trim, with the main piece being about £50.

You do not need to drill out anything, leave that in situ and you can bend the box it sits in back to access, remove and replace alarm and then push back into place.

Starter motor gave me very similar problems.

I had this problem and ended up having to source an after market one from Europe (pre brexit so wasn’t an issue).

Great I’ll crack on and get one. Thanks

Yeah thanks for that just managed to find out that the names of the connectors (RAKU2 and SMA) this evening so I could search and I think I found adapters. The other question is will the gps from a newer antenna work with an older Columbus unit?

Hi I have aerial/gps that has these connections and I am wondering if I can change these to the newer Fakra connectors to then add a newer antenna with Fakra connections already on?

When I say no need to cut it I mean the metal box it sits inside as it just bends away but you could carefully cut the alarm open as said and shown above

You can cut the alarm open and do a battery replacement if it just that or buy a new or second hand one

Yeah at the end of the dash. I would now be looking at the alarm itself. It’s under the lining, rear end of the n/s wheel in a metal box, The Easiest way is to remove wheel and lining, remove bolts to alarm box and bend the box down, no need to cut it.

Fuse still needs checking as no sound still doesn’t really tell you anything

Fuse number 35

Yes. Are you hearing the alarm blips when locking and unlocking the car.

First check the fuse (iircc a 5A) and if that hasn’t gone then it could be the alarm box itself. It could be corrosion to the pcb or the battery itself has gone and/or could have caused corrosion.

Always been like it on mine, same engine.

To be fair mine had different error codes but very similar problems.

I had similar problems and it turned out to be one of two things. One was joint cracks on the solder of the dash clocks and the other was the ignition switch, sorry can’t remember which one solved it. https://www.amazon.co.uk/febi-bilstein-38638-ignition-switch/dp/B00DZM7C9W/ref=mp_s_a_1_4?dchild=1&keywords=38638&qid=1621854578&sr=8-4

Hi Can anybody tell me what the situation is in removing the main am/fm part of the antenna is please. The bottom GPS base is fine but the antenna is starting to split at the bottom where it connects to the base, I thought I read somewhere that they can't be removed. part number - 1U0035507A

Thanks for your reply’s. I completely stripped it all out, T cut and really cleaned the sensors, set it up in the boot and they are now working. I’ll check again tomorrow and then Just got to get it all back together. I only have the basic diagnostic tools which I appreciate makes things more difficult.

Yeah they all seem to click.

Well I’ve got no real further in my quest. Changed front for backs and still have the same problem. The rear does work but as soon as a sensor is activated it then beeps continuously and doesn’t stop or settle down to shorter beeps. Also I forgotten how it works normally, if you are nowhere near anything does it still give short beeps or nothing?

When taking a break I thought about it sensibly and realised that more than one could be broken, tomorrow I’ll change and test individual ones with one of the fronts which are working to go through the elimination process.

My rear parking sensors constantly beep so I’ve removed each one and replaced it with a known working one but is still constantly beeps. Where do I look next and can I test them for operation using a multimeter?