Re: Water temp/Level Red LED

["Middlewick, Dave" <dave@est.port.ac.uk>]

Ewan
That might have been it but not this time.
I have had a look and it is as dry as a bone. Put a short across the
lead just to make sure and have taken the relay out but no change.
Dave

 
> Date:          Wed, 30 Sep 1998 14:04:34 +0100 (BST)
> From:          Ewan Marshall - Frans Maas Linlithgow <Ewan.Marshall@UK.Sun.COM>
> Reply-to:      Ewan Marshall - Frans Maas Linlithgow <Ewan.Marshall@UK.Sun.COM>
> Subject:       Re: Water temp/Level Red LED
> To:            dave@est.port.ac.uk
> Cc:            Ewan.Marshall@UK.Sun.COM

> Check the connections on the top of the water resivoir.Sometimes
> moisture gets inside or theres a bad connection which causes the LED
> to flash. Does the gauge show the car overheating??If not then this
> is the likely problem.
> 
> Ewen
> 
> 
>                 Ewen Marshall
>                  '89 Scala
>        '82 Mk1 Golf GTi
>      Renault Clio RT 1.9D
> 
>                    Previous: '87 GTX,
>                   Rabbit Twin 45'd GTi,
>                  '86 Golf GTi Campaign,
>                       '89 Golf GTi
> 
>    "Built in Germany...(VW)...Made In Scotland."
> 
>                  Email:  ewan.marshall@UK.sun.com
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> 
>  From: "Middlewick, Dave" <dave@est.port.ac.uk>
>  To: scirocco-L@scirocco.org
>  Subject: Water temp/Level Red LED
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> 
>  The little red LED in the water temp gauge will not stop flashing
>  in my 87 Scrocco GTX with 1800cc "K" injection engine. When I turn
>  the ignition on it flashes then  goes out for a few seconds and
>  comes back on flashing for the rest of the journey. Looking at the
>  Haynes manual wiring diagram the LED has a controller strapped
>  across the temperature gauge. The gauge is fed from the voltage
>  stabiliser. The other side of the gauge goes to the temperature
>  sensor and the coolant level relay and that's it, simple I think.
>  The LED controller also has a ground connection. So I pull the
>  level relay, top right relay on fuse box extension, switch on and
>  LED keeps flashing. So I also pull the wire from the temperature
>  sensor and LED keeps flashing. I ground the sensor wire, gauge goes
>  full swing LED flashing. Open sensor wire, gauge goes to zero and
>  LED is still flashing. So I admit defeat and plead for help from
>  any one who has had this problem or knows how to get to the LED to
>  snip the wire! Yes, I have checked the water level. The temperature
>  needle runs just past the LED as it always has. -- To subscribe or
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