Yellow light on dash and gear change thingy
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Yellow light on dash and gear change thingy
On my mk1 the needle is in the middle and never moves, however the light seems to come on whenever there is any sustained throttle (over 2-3 seconds) regardless of what the revs are.
Any ideas? many thanks Jon
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MPG needle only works in 5th gear and only after a mile or two.
The yellow 'economy' / 'change' light works as you say when there is sustained revs in 1st to 4th gear. It is suppose to make you drive more economically!!!
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thoyland said
Mine works as follows:
MPG needle only works in 5th gear and only after a mile or two.
The yellow 'economy' / 'change' light works as you say when there is sustained revs in 1st to 4th gear. It is suppose to make you drive more economically!!!
drive more economically, its a pain in the arse more like, is there anyway I can unplug it?
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The black plastic reverse gear switch on the gear box also switchs the gauage needle on in 5th and stops the light working.
The needle has always worked on mine and the change up light for about 2 weeks when I swapped the circular thingy near the dizzy. Then it stopped working again.
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Hose (1) runs from the back of the inlet manifold to the vacuum advance/retard control on the distributor. This hose provides the input to the change indicator and the econo-meter needle on the dash board:
Hose (2) runs from the front of the inlet manifold to the acceleration enrichment control at the front of the engine compartment. This hose is only found on GTi's
Hose (3) runs from the front of the inlet manifold and passes through the firewall to fitting G55 (Digital Pressure Gauge) at the back of the instument cluster. G55 provides part of the key input to calculate the MPG reading on the MFA. Hose (3) is detailed in the third image above.
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Please …. tell me that it's fixable. I can't stand this as well as the 99.9 mpg
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