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Hi all,
Firstly I have tried searching through the forums as a guest for the answer, but cannot seem to find a definitive answer.
Car in question is my girlfriends 2001 Golf (1.6L)
Problems are:-
- Water temp gauge keeps playing up intermittently, some times it work and shows temp correctly and other times it sits in the off position.
- Taco/rev meter seems to have set its minimum position at 4000rpm, so when your doing about 3000 rpm, it reads 7000rpm. when the car turns off the gauge moves down and sits on 4000rpm.
The car is completely standard.
The water temp gauge problem has been going on for a while now and it hasn't been an issue because the car doesn't get driven much. From what I have found through searching I will check the connection to the temp sender unit, clean the connection and try again. But I wanted to make sure before I went out and bought another sender unit.
With the rpm gauge problem this has only just happened today ( I am driving it at the moment because I am again about the replace the window reg clips that keep breaking, with the replacement metal ones. 4 broken window clips in 3 yrs
)
The car is not behaving any differently as far as i can tell, power seems normal, no warning lights etc, just the rpm gauge reading ridiculous readings. Not taking into account the starting point it seems to follow the revs of the engine pretty accurately.
If anyone can please provide feedback and or move this thread into the relevant section, your help would be greatly appreciated. If it were a subaru I would be able to fix it with no problems, but don't really have much of an idea with VWs and thanks in advance!
Cheers,
Dane
Firstly I have tried searching through the forums as a guest for the answer, but cannot seem to find a definitive answer.
Car in question is my girlfriends 2001 Golf (1.6L)
Problems are:-
- Water temp gauge keeps playing up intermittently, some times it work and shows temp correctly and other times it sits in the off position.
- Taco/rev meter seems to have set its minimum position at 4000rpm, so when your doing about 3000 rpm, it reads 7000rpm. when the car turns off the gauge moves down and sits on 4000rpm.
The car is completely standard.
The water temp gauge problem has been going on for a while now and it hasn't been an issue because the car doesn't get driven much. From what I have found through searching I will check the connection to the temp sender unit, clean the connection and try again. But I wanted to make sure before I went out and bought another sender unit.
With the rpm gauge problem this has only just happened today ( I am driving it at the moment because I am again about the replace the window reg clips that keep breaking, with the replacement metal ones. 4 broken window clips in 3 yrs
)The car is not behaving any differently as far as i can tell, power seems normal, no warning lights etc, just the rpm gauge reading ridiculous readings. Not taking into account the starting point it seems to follow the revs of the engine pretty accurately.
If anyone can please provide feedback and or move this thread into the relevant section, your help would be greatly appreciated. If it were a subaru I would be able to fix it with no problems, but don't really have much of an idea with VWs and thanks in advance!
Cheers,
Dane
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