talking about weird problems....

[Theron J. Bliss]

Speaking of weird problems, my gas gauge (which at present decided it doesn't want to
work), was acting kinda funky one night.  As I was driving home, it would slowly fall
to E (about a 10 second timing), then rapidly rise to full, then slowly descend to E
again, and quickly rise to full...  It did this over and over again for about 20
minutes, until I shut the car off.  Any ideas?  Now the gauge just doesn't work at all.

Theron J. Bliss
1990 V8 Quattro

"Livolsi, Stephane" wrote:

> The other night while driving, my daughter asks " Dad, why are the
> lights moving from side to side like that?" " hmm, what do you mean?" as
> I look down to see the button lights on the climate control "waving"
> from right to left.  It actually looks kinda cool, but obviously there
> is something amiss.  First the rightmost light comes on and as it goes
> out the next one to the left goes on and as it goes out the next one
> goes on and etc.  When the "wave" gets to the numbers on the temp
> display it "waves" the numbers too, from right to left. for example, if
> the display was 23, it would light up the 3 and as the 3 goes out it
> lights up the 2, then the 2 goes out and the button lights keep waving
> down to the left.  This repeats over and over again.  The one thing that
> seems to affect this is the bulb dimmer switch.  If it is set to max
> brightness, there is no wave.  Anything less than max and it waves
> away....
> Stephane Livolsi
> Williams Lake, BC, Canada
> 86 5KTQ (If you don't know what it means, you aren't in the club)
>
> >----------
> >From:
> >       quk at isham-research.freeserve.co.uk[SMTP:quk at isham-research.freeserve.co.uk]
> >Sent:  October 1, 2000 5:00 PM
> >To:    quattro at audifans.com
> >Subject:       100TQW MAC14 MC-2 won't start
> >
> >
> >> Boy, you really get the crazy problems, don't you?  Normally would say to
> >> check and clean all grounds (common problem). But since this is affecting
> >> both dash, starting, as well as keeping it running, then it sounds like a
> >> power line off the starter or Alternator that feeds all these areas.  I
> >> don't have the wiring diagram but I say corrosion on a main power feed.
> >
> >I get the normal ones too - I just post the real whacky ones in case
> >someone else has seen them before.  In this case I think it's some
> >general electrical malaise - perhaps water ingress somewhere.
> >
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