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ok random question - re AUDI A3
Posted: Tue Mar 14, 2006 3:06 pm
by ninja
my company car is doing my head in. the boot sensor say's it's open when it's quite clearly bl00dy shut! the result of this is that the alarm is going off all the time. Audi can take it in to fix the problem on, wait for it, wait. . .
the 29th March!
so between now and then i'd either have to get up out of be every half hour through the night to turn the b*starding alarm off
or
leave the car parked on the street unlocked (cos the garage is for the elise! lol)
do any of you know how to disable the alarm or at least lock the car doors or something. anything other than putting a big sign in the window saying "beware of the dog" would help
ninja
Posted: Tue Mar 14, 2006 3:08 pm
by Rich H
Can you not just short out the switch concerned? Shouldn't be difficult.....
Posted: Tue Mar 14, 2006 3:37 pm
by ninja
RICHARDHUMBLE wrote:Can you not just short out the switch concerned? Shouldn't be difficult.....
took the fuse out!
ninja
Posted: Tue Mar 14, 2006 3:50 pm
by gordon
The rear washer pipe comes loose and leaks water onto the micro switch. Audi will fix this no probs. Taking the fuse out was prob the easiest thing to do and will get you by just now
Posted: Tue Mar 14, 2006 4:07 pm
by ninja
ah
that would explain why the rear skooshy water thing is not working then!
ninja
Posted: Tue Mar 14, 2006 4:19 pm
by gordon
it always happens in the winter. Water freezes in the metal jet ball bit, folk put on the skoosher and the pressurs blows the pipe off. Audi say if the screenwash % is correct this wont happen. But your average joe doesn't want to be monitoring screenwash % all the time
Posted: Tue Mar 14, 2006 4:22 pm
by ninja
i bought premixed screenwash!
cost a fortune but then it's for the company car and i don't pay, needless to say i used this stuff in the lotus and put salt water with a diluted fairy mixture in the audi. lol
ninja
Posted: Tue Mar 14, 2006 11:53 pm
by Mr Momo
Sounds like a common 'VAG' fault (can't believe someone in the UK agreed that it was going to be called this
)
Same happened on our Passat Estate - eventually sorted after four trips to the dealer, but the AA man was the best - he removed the related fuse and tippex'd it to allow us to take it out whilst we waited for the dealer to get the part.
Get this : Quote from receptionist at dealer - We recommend you don't use the rear washer when it is cold, as the washer pipe can come off"
What a pile of german sh*te these people talk - what about all that arctic testing !
Posted: Wed Mar 15, 2006 12:03 am
by Derek
Yeah - happened to both a Mk3 GTi Golf and Audi A3 I've had.
Easy fix though - there is a good Audi forum (or there was 2 or 3 years ago when I had my A3) which had a lot of fixes and technical info etc.
Not that you care with it being a company car!
Posted: Wed Mar 15, 2006 8:30 am
by alicrozier
Same happened on my old VR6 Golf...
Ali
Posted: Wed Mar 15, 2006 9:45 am
by ninja
Mr Momo wrote: Quote from receptionist at dealer - We recommend you don't use the rear washer when it is cold, as the washer pipe can come off"
same advice i was given!
i've managed to take the fuse out that stops the alarm sounding but the indicators still flash.
the other advice i got from arnold clark (bearing in mind that this is their car) was to leave it unlocked! sitting on the road unlocked over night and sitting in glasgow, on the street unlocked during the day!
LMAO these people are just unbelievable
ninja
Posted: Wed Mar 15, 2006 9:54 am
by simon
ninja wrote:advice i got from arnold clark
There's the root of your problem. Never deal with Arnold Clark
Posted: Thu Mar 16, 2006 10:46 pm
by Mr Momo
So what were the forum tips ?
Posted: Fri Mar 17, 2006 10:31 am
by MacK
Mr Momo wrote:So what were the forum tips ?
I'll guess, reconnect the pipe that has come of and fix it in place with a small cable tie?
Posted: Fri Mar 17, 2006 11:14 am
by Rich H
And don't use the rear screen washer in Scotland!