ticketyboo90
Registered User
Hi all I own a 1.6 a3... 1.6... I know it is a 52 plate and I have been experiencing some real problems with the hazard lights.
I'll be driving for anything from 30seconds to 10 minutes and the hazard lights start flashing for no reason what so ever. I'll then press the hazard button and it turns off, but about about 10seconds later they start again and again and the only way to stop it at the moment is to pull fuse 39 out (hazard light fuse). Sometimes it does it when the car is parked and I have woken up 1 or 2 mornings to a flat battery.
The pin on the battery that you connect the positive to was worn away and the clamp was loose because the pin was that worn down. (Sometimes when I went over a speed bump I lost electric for a split second because of the loose wire! I really thought changing the battery would be the problem, so I did and it hasn't grrrrrr!
The alarm siren has been disconnected because the alarm also used to go off by it self for no reason. The little alarm lights stay solid for 30 seconds then flash as they should! The alarm goes off the hazards go quite fast but these hazards that go off the flash appears to be slower as if it was me just pressing the hazard switch. The hazard relay was changed 2 years ago due to the indicators playing up which solved the problem.
But will that of gone again only being 2 years old? Can anyone help me with this gremlin!?
I do have a dab radio and have earthed on the pillar of the windshield but I don't think that's the problem as that's been in since Christmas Day and it's only been doing it the past week! I looked in the boot on the passenger side and one little bit of foam seemed wet but cudnt see water anywhere else down there. I took the central locking pump apart and it looked dry inside, it also can't be the rear washer hose because that is fed through the drivers side! Help me!!!! Many thanks
I'll be driving for anything from 30seconds to 10 minutes and the hazard lights start flashing for no reason what so ever. I'll then press the hazard button and it turns off, but about about 10seconds later they start again and again and the only way to stop it at the moment is to pull fuse 39 out (hazard light fuse). Sometimes it does it when the car is parked and I have woken up 1 or 2 mornings to a flat battery.
The pin on the battery that you connect the positive to was worn away and the clamp was loose because the pin was that worn down. (Sometimes when I went over a speed bump I lost electric for a split second because of the loose wire! I really thought changing the battery would be the problem, so I did and it hasn't grrrrrr!
The alarm siren has been disconnected because the alarm also used to go off by it self for no reason. The little alarm lights stay solid for 30 seconds then flash as they should! The alarm goes off the hazards go quite fast but these hazards that go off the flash appears to be slower as if it was me just pressing the hazard switch. The hazard relay was changed 2 years ago due to the indicators playing up which solved the problem.
But will that of gone again only being 2 years old? Can anyone help me with this gremlin!?
I do have a dab radio and have earthed on the pillar of the windshield but I don't think that's the problem as that's been in since Christmas Day and it's only been doing it the past week! I looked in the boot on the passenger side and one little bit of foam seemed wet but cudnt see water anywhere else down there. I took the central locking pump apart and it looked dry inside, it also can't be the rear washer hose because that is fed through the drivers side! Help me!!!! Many thanks
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