ok random question - re AUDI A3

ninja · Post by **ninja** » Tue Mar 14, 2006 3:06 pm

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

Rich H · Post by **Rich H** » Tue Mar 14, 2006 3:08 pm

Can you not just short out the switch concerned? Shouldn't be difficult.....

ninja · Post by **ninja** » Tue Mar 14, 2006 3:37 pm

RICHARDHUMBLE wrote:Can you not just short out the switch concerned? Shouldn't be difficult.....

took the fuse out!

ninja

gordon · Post by **gordon** » Tue Mar 14, 2006 3:50 pm

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

ninja · Post by **ninja** » Tue Mar 14, 2006 4:07 pm

ah

that would explain why the rear skooshy water thing is not working then!

ninja

gordon · Post by **gordon** » Tue Mar 14, 2006 4:19 pm

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

ninja · Post by **ninja** » Tue Mar 14, 2006 4:22 pm

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

Mr Momo · Post by **Mr Momo** » Tue Mar 14, 2006 11:53 pm

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 !

Derek · Post by **Derek** » Wed Mar 15, 2006 12:03 am

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!

alicrozier · Post by **alicrozier** » Wed Mar 15, 2006 8:30 am

Same happened on my old VR6 Golf...

Ali

ninja · Post by **ninja** » Wed Mar 15, 2006 9:45 am

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

Post by **simon** » Wed Mar 15, 2006 9:54 am

ninja wrote:advice i got from arnold clark

There's the root of your problem. Never deal with Arnold Clark

Mr Momo · Post by **Mr Momo** » Thu Mar 16, 2006 10:46 pm

So what were the forum tips ?

MacK · Post by **MacK** » Fri Mar 17, 2006 10:31 am

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?

Rich H · Post by **Rich H** » Fri Mar 17, 2006 11:14 am

And don't use the rear screen washer in Scotland!