Electrical Problems

[pficken]

Hi, this is a summary of the recently ocuring electrical problems on my 2009 Touareg V6TDI that I would appreciate advice on. The car is with the dealer now.

1. Sometimes at start up the cruise control symbol appears in the MFD display with a ! symbou to the left. The only way to clear the symbols is to stop the car and restart the engine. The manual does not tell me what the ! sumbol means.

2. Sometines at start up the "R" "D" "P" etc symbols are all back lit, rather that just one and there is no indication what gear I am in. Again this can be fixed by stoping and restarting the car.

3. The car is hard to start on colder mornings. Yesterday I had to use jumper leads to start it andtoday I could not even use jumper leads to start it. Using a multi meter the battery is reading 11.5 volts almost all the time. The internal voltage guage is showing about 8 volts.

4. The blower for the air conditioning is not working when 'auto' is selected

5. The distance to empty calculation is not accurate. The 60Km warning came on so I filled up. The car took 84 litres. The Touareg was getting 13l/100km so I should have had over 100K left in the tank.

[Flipper Dog]

Don't muck around with it yourself, get it down to your dealer and have it looked at under warranty.

You have a power drain somewhere there which looks like it is messing your Can Bus around.

[Transporter]

It could be many things. Let us know what the problem was.

For your own record, don't forget to ask for the Invoice with the work description that was done.

[pficken]

Hi,

Well according to the dealer the problem has been fixed. The fault was a cabling problem causing a bad earth. The TPI code for the cabling fault on the job report is 202022901/1. The dealer indicated the VW technical specialists in Sydney advised this is known problem. In sumary they advised correcting the wiring fixed:

1. Distance to empty figures shownon the MFD
2. The mirrors should no longer stick at the closed position
3. Airconditioning on auto mode - the blower will now work
4. Eronous mesages on the MFD, such as ' Brake Assist Workshop' will not appear
4. At one pioint I could not get the Touareg into reverse, this is not fixed



By the way there was also a recall on. The recall code is 23F4. The recall reprogrames the engine control, that is all I know.

Driving my Touareg all seems OK. I immediatly noticed a great improvement when starting...

Thanks for the replies...