Diesel-Liebhaber
Member
- Joined
- Apr 5, 2010
- Location
- Wisconsin
- TDI
- 96' Passat TDI Wagon, 93' Mercedes 300D Turbo Diesel, 7.3L Excursion
Guages Not Working 1996 Passat TDI...
I checked the fuse and checked to see that there is power to the fuse holder. Does anyone know if there are any fusable links that I am unaware of? I recently bought the car that way. The situation started with the previous owner. He changed the starter and did not disconnect the battery before starting the project. When doing so he remembered accidentally touching the loose positive wire to groung shooting sparks... When the job was done the no start problem was fixed but he noticed right away the spedometer and all the guages did not work. Then a few days later on a rainy day he noticed the wipers did not work. When I got the car I found a blown fuse for the wipers so they are working just fine now.
I would like to find a "Original" VW service manual for this project and also for in the future. From my experience I am not a big fan of the chilton manuals and the haynes manuals are better but not purfect. Put it this way... I purchased the original service manual for my truck with the Power Stroke.
Thought I would start here because I am new to the TDI forum and did not see any posts that are the same as the problem I am having.
There are lots of little glitches with my new TDI but I will start with this one
Looking forward to running it fora long time - so far looks like I can run back and forth to work all week on less than $10
Thanks
I checked the fuse and checked to see that there is power to the fuse holder. Does anyone know if there are any fusable links that I am unaware of? I recently bought the car that way. The situation started with the previous owner. He changed the starter and did not disconnect the battery before starting the project. When doing so he remembered accidentally touching the loose positive wire to groung shooting sparks... When the job was done the no start problem was fixed but he noticed right away the spedometer and all the guages did not work. Then a few days later on a rainy day he noticed the wipers did not work. When I got the car I found a blown fuse for the wipers so they are working just fine now.
I would like to find a "Original" VW service manual for this project and also for in the future. From my experience I am not a big fan of the chilton manuals and the haynes manuals are better but not purfect. Put it this way... I purchased the original service manual for my truck with the Power Stroke.
Thought I would start here because I am new to the TDI forum and did not see any posts that are the same as the problem I am having.
There are lots of little glitches with my new TDI but I will start with this one
Looking forward to running it fora long time - so far looks like I can run back and forth to work all week on less than $10
Thanks