urgent help please!

right i have a loose connection on the positive part of the battery in my mk3 gti. every now and then it comes loose and my car dies, so i have to pop the hood and the shake the terminal.

any way, this happened to me last night in tescos car park, so i jumped out shook the connection and every thing came back on. BUT all 3 of my left hand indicators stay on, sometimes clicking, most of the time constant and sometimes they turn off for 5 seconds or so. My right ones still work as normal and if i put the indicator stalk to the left it becomes constant again (if its in the flashing it will go to constant)

Ive checked all the fuses under the steering wheel and there all fine, but i can hear a distant clicking noise from behind the steering colum. Im thinking it might be a faulty ground.

if anyone has any info or knolage on this it would be so helpful as i have to drive 180 miles (down to and around london) tomorrow for work.

cheers,

max

max wrote:

right i have a loose connection on the positive part of the battery in my mk3 gti. every now and then it comes loose and my car dies, so i have to pop the hood and the shake the terminal.

any way, this happened to me last night in tescos car park, so i jumped out shook the connection and every thing came back on. BUT all 3 of my left hand indicators stay on, sometimes clicking, most of the time constant and sometimes they turn off for 5 seconds or so. My right ones still work as normal and if i put the indicator stalk to the left it becomes constant again (if its in the flashing it will go to constant)

Ive checked all the fuses under the steering wheel and there all fine, but i can hear a distant clicking noise from behind the steering colum. Im thinking it might be a faulty ground.

if anyone has any info or knolage on this it would be so helpful as i have to drive 180 miles (down to and around london) tomorrow for work.

cheers,

max

i think your right saying its a faulty ground ill pop down tonight and have a look if you like?

may also be your indicator relay on its last legs max...

Lupton_20vt wrote:

i think your right saying its a faulty ground ill pop down tonight and have a look if you like?

if you want i just need to sort it before work tomorrow

Lupton_20vt wrote:

may also be your indicator relay on its last legs max...

na the relay controls both sides so it wouldnt be that. heard it could be the stalk, il try taking it out and spraying some wd40 in it.

when do you finish tonight? btw possibly getting cod 5 today lol

Lupton_20vt wrote:

when do you finish tonight? btw possibly getting cod 5 today lol

lol your addicted hard mate, if i fix my car im feeling nazi zombies over live tonight . but first you have to give me my game back

erm give me half an hour to chill, so call it 6pm ?

yea haha just been to get my copy now...yea sounds good man orr we could just play it at mine or yours over live surely?

yeah check ya earth strap mate and u play 360 or ps3 if its xbox add us chubby332 zombies is the bollocks lol

chubby353 wrote:

yeah check ya earth strap mate and u play 360 or ps3 if its xbox add us chubby332 zombies is the bollocks lol

added ya fella christoff2256

chubby353 wrote:

yeah check ya earth strap mate and u play 360 or ps3 if its xbox add us chubby332 zombies is the bollocks lol

where is the earth strap mate?

il add you when i get home from work mate.

right of the neg terminal of you better max

ahh i always assumed that was called the battery earth. doubt its that otherwise id have more problems then just the indicators

i has this problem on my mk2 some how sorted its self out like it usally did haha

Yea i'd check ya earth strap ect. Also have you tried removing the battery terminal and leave it off for 10-20 mins then put it back on, might reset itself? I know on mk2's if ya piss around with the battery somtimes the gauges dont work at all, mfa goes berserk ect, could be a similar thing?

hasekna wrote:

Yea i'd check ya earth strap ect. Also have you tried removing the battery terminal and leave it off for 10-20 mins then put it back on, might reset itself? I know on mk2's if ya piss around with the battery somtimes the gauges dont work at all, mfa goes berserk ect, could be a similar thing?

i left it off about 10 hours last night and every times ive parked up today (because it still flashes when my cars off so it would drain the battery)

check if the relay is earthed properly.

we checked that last night fella got a new relay today so well see how that goes.

i'm not sure how it would have happened mate but just check theres no moisture on the fuse and relay board or on any electrics around it may be that also have you pass any power cables close to where the idicator circuit runs as it might be that or a standard live rubbing next to the live for the indicator circuit ????

not sure really mate bit of a hard one with out taking a look but seems like something is bridging the indicator circuit or just bridging power to the one side like you said doubt its the relay but if youve been cuttin speaker wire etc near the stork a peice of wire may be bridging something sound like waters got in somewhere somehow to be honest try wakin the heaters on full if all else fails i guess worth a shot.

hope this helps i'll try and do a bit off reseach for ya and have a think about it

Gal

STRASSE KRIEGER wrote:

also have you pass any power cables close to where the idicator circuit runs as it might be that

what i mean is if youve ran a power cable for an amp it may have rubbed against plastic and be earthing through the one side of the indicator circuit long shot but it does sometimes happen????

more likely a couple of standard cable have rubbed bare and there touching one live and one somewhere along the indicator circuit or moisture in the stork or a broken contact or sumin.

cheers
gal

took out the stalk last night, cleaned it, doused it in w40 so its not sticking, checked the bell housing earth, cleaned that up, checked the earth under the battery tray and cleaned it up.

its got to be the relay, if not then im stumped

billybug wrote:

i has this problem on my mk2 some how sorted its self out like it usally did haha

mines magically sorted its self out and all !

god knows how, i love vws!

lol nice one mate might have just been an internally conection problem in the stork or sumin and the wd needed a while to work its magic ohwell atleast its sorted itself out maybe it was the pixie people??

glad its fixed any how mate

max wrote:

billybug wrote:

i has this problem on my mk2 some how sorted its self out like it usally did haha

mines magically sorted its self out and all !

god knows how, i love vws!

best thing about vws they fix them selfs.

most of the problems i had with the car it sorted its self out haha