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make it stop...

Yes i've searched, yes i've found loads of information, but nothing answers my question.

is it possible to remove the oil light and the buzzer, or to just make them stop..

they're on because my blue/white and blue/black wires aren't connected to anything, they're not connected as there is nowhere to connect them to.

I'm using oil temp and pressure gauges in the dash, but the speedo is rattling my brain with it's constant buzzing.

TIA
Dan

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I know the feeling.
The unit with the buzzer lives behind the speedo, I don't know what would happen if you remove it altogether other than you would have no warning for low oil pressure. When mine played up I would have been quite happiy to have risked that

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Look to your sending units on the side of the head, as that is where VW had the low pressure switch on the car, as the "Can" drove the low pressure warning as well as oil pressure.

If you are running a low vis oil, that could also be an issue.

The High pressure sender and oil temp is usually located on the oil filter flange.

I had a buzzer that would occasionally sound at idle.  I was running a HI-Flow pump as well as 20w50 Castrol, and a Wix filter.  I had decided that the new sender was not proper for the low pressure warning, and I relocated the "Can" to oil filter flange spare port that was plugged, and moved the plug to the side of the head.

Now a iffy, ground point to the Frame, and or the cluster can cause similar issues as the ground isn't ground but a higher resistive circuit.

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Sorry, my post wasn't much help was it.
You may already know this but just in case - the unit with the buzzer isn't in the speedo, it's behind it, you take the instrument cluster out and remove the flexy wiring loom from behind it, then you will see the printed circuit board with the buzzer on it. If it were me I would try removing the whole thing but it's up to you.
Something else, do you mean there is nowhere to put the wires because the senders have been removed to make way for the connections for the gauges, if so why not get a couple of tee's and put the senders back.

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Hi cheers for the replies.
The car isnt running a mk1 engine, it is running a mk3 ahu TDi with no management.

I could put T's in, but they look untidy, the car isnt my daily driver, it will probably do less than a thousand miles this year, i'm not really worried about the oil pressure, as i say, it has oil pressure and temp gauges, just the buzzing is really annoying.

I'll pull the cluster out and see if i can remove the buzzer from the clocks.

The car was built by someone else, but was never completely finished, i've just bought it, so i'm trying to put the finishing touches on it.

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Reddood said

Yes i've searched, yes i've found loads of information, but nothing answers my question.

is it possible to remove the oil light and the buzzer, or to just make them stop..

they're on because my blue/white and blue/black wires aren't connected to anything, they're not connected as there is nowhere to connect them to.

I'm using oil temp and pressure gauges in the dash, but the speedo is rattling my brain with it's constant buzzing.

TIA
Dan



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the AHU has all the holes you need for oil pressure switches in the head and oil filter housing, in fact it has more holes than mk1/2 engines have as it has 3 ion the filter housing, so I dont know why you cant just wire it up as per standard mk1/2/3 golf?

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