Fuel gauge on my car is being wacky - more often than not it doesn't work. Just took a trip to Basingstoke to plug my car in at Jacksons but the diagnostic system was down (did pick up my MFD2 surround tho, so not a *complete* wasted journey).

Anyways, get back to Reading, park up, turn off ignition and *click* - everything goes blank and stereo turns off (keys still in).

Try to turn ignition back on and nothing. Wait a few seconds then get a rapid click-click-click and then back to life and back to normal. Well, normal with the time being midnight, my trip being zero and the outside temperature being 38 degrees (apparently?). Definately the second time this has happened and possibly the third...

Oh dear, thats not good.

Good luck getting a fix. Probably something dead simple.

Get Stu to check the fault codes later on today, may save you a trip back to the dealers

Wierdly, the one-touch window operation (up) wouldn't work for a little while but now is OK. And the fuel gauge hasn't failed again. Yet...

Will be interesting to see what faultcodes are there.

Could be an earth problem on the battery, or the body shell. The vibration caused by the engine stopping could have been enough to fail the connection. The one touch windows not working properly means the power was disconnected.

Audiable clicking could also lead to a faulty relay.

I had a reasonably similar problem a couple of years ago on my Octy Vrs.

The instruments took to behaving very oddly, and the car would cough and splutter sometimes, but the dealer could find nothing wrong, after two visits.

Then it cut out completely, at about 90mph in the outside lane of the motorway. Man alive, I had to buy new underpants :eek: Deeply unpleasant.

So I took it back to the dealer, and they finally diagnosed a dodgy earth on the ECU. With this tightened up, the problem never returned.

I had a reasonably similar problem a couple of years ago on my Octy Vrs.

The instruments took to behaving very oddly, and the car would cough and splutter sometimes, but the dealer could find nothing wrong, after two visits.

Then it cut out completely, at about 90mph in the outside lane of the motorway. Man alive, I had to buy new underpants :eek: Deeply unpleasant.

So I took it back to the dealer, and they finally diagnosed a dodgy earth on the ECU. With this tightened up, the problem never returned.

Off topic, but I love your signature and avator pic's

Off topic, but I love your signature and avator pic's

:cheers:

VRStu nailed it down to loose battery connections after being plugged in to vagcom - which he then sorted. Petrol gauge is a different issue and has failed again.

Thanks, Stu :thumbup: :thumbup: :thumbup:

No problem.

Nice to meet you.