Speedo issues, temp and loss of patience.
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its not working...
The temp gauge still just climbs up and over on on its own regardless of engine temp cf_emoticons__BangHead:Can anyone recommend a golf friendly garage, enthusiast, exorcist in the South East that i could perhaps give the car too as i'm likely to set light to it at this rate, my Fiance currently hates me as "i've wrecked her car"
its bad and i need to get it sorted, i really need some help but no idea where to turn…….
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as for the speedo not working remove the dash cluster and drive it for a short distance whilst watching the square peg in the speedo cable, does it turn?
make sure the cable is fully pushed into the gearbox its a bit fiddly! if you look at the end of the gear there is a nipple, this has to drop into a hole machined into the bottom of the gearbox casing so it can take a bit of wiggling and poking before it drops in
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will struggle to get the silver cup thing back out, was a gti to get in, had to use a flat surface and a hammer ! but will try, possibly tonight.
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got a speedo but completely toasted the dash ! Found a rectifier on the membrane that was giving spurios readings compared to a mk2 (known to be good) dash, went to maplins and got a replacement, soldered it in adn now nothing electrical on the dash works at all ! checked all the fuses and they're all ok, also my brake lights are out, seem to remember the brakelight cable being the same colour as the temp guage cable and being mis-wired initially, need to check all that out again now
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was driving it as i believe the guage is wrong but the engine temp is right and stopped at a junction and the guage dropped down to 'normal' on its own, pulled away and it rose back up to high again….
started on the wires again and nothing, then thought, what if there's an air lock in the coolant system… tried the run it up to temp without the cap on whilst massaging the hoses thing last night and the guage went down Missus was over the moon, i said lets take it for a spin down the seafront to help build her confidence up in it, got to the end of the road and bluudy guage went up ! returned home with a very upset missus tried the bleed thing again, more air did come out but wasn't as effective as before plus it was dark, decided to leave it till today before i try again as i think it needs to heat up from cold each time, wondering if jacking the car up really awkwardly to get the expansion tank at the highest point would help ??
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Hello my name is John and I'm a dub addict.
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with the heater on hot you can keep tabs on the temp of the water in the matrix, once it starts blowing good and hot you know that you have all the bubbles out of your matrix. as you say i guess it'll also help control the temperature a bit
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got a slight hunting issue on cold starts, but will clean up the stabiliser valve this weekend as although it buzzes with the ignition on, when the engine running pulling the loom connector off it makes no difference, the gauge is sitting just a little bit past the center line, so i'm guessing a little more air needs to be got out, but i have flushed the system through and topped up with the correct amount of coolant / anti-freeze.
Will do a little tidy up in the engine bay and then drive the heck out of it whilst i save for a respray !
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