ESP Light

[tom16v]

whilst enjoying the WRC in wales the ESP light came on whilst i was driving.as i was in the middle of wales n i live 150miles away i had to continue driving. the light stayed on for the rest of the time i was driving but the car feels fine. any1 got ne ideas why this light wud come on?

[Rhodey]

its that the engine light, mine was always on could be a faulty sensor mine was!

[sorted]

I had this light on my dash, you'd better have it checked !

I had the car diagnosed, turned out it was the Brake Light Switch - Reset that and Reset the EPC light ! No Hastle Now

The car was also in Limp Mode - Which cant be good to drive around on !

I think its commonly caused by the Brake Light Switch - Normall when a few brake lights have blew - In my case !!

Have any of ur brake lights been replaced ?

[tom16v]

yeah the near side brake light went about 2 weeks ago,i replaced that and its been fine til now, but i haven't been driving the car cos i was on holiday. so u think i should get vw to check it out? how much dya think it'll cost?

[Si_GTi]

Generally speaking, if your EPC light comes on then theres something going on that the engine management system doesn't like! Best bet is to get your car to a VW garage and get it checked out.

Could be a brake light. Could be something more serious altho if the car is driving OK then perhaps the ECU is managing to compensate for whatever has caused the EPC light to come on? When my cambelt tensioner went, the EPC light didn't come at all. VW engineer suggested that the ECU was managing to compensate for the damage by latering other settings, so perhaps something like that is going on with yours. But anyway. Most of the time, EPC light = take car to garage

[polopowah]

this is different i know
but my boot light keeps coming and going on the dash :s
maybe it needs some grease around the tailgate lock?
-Ben-

[jon_poloV]

this is different i know
but my boot light keeps coming and going on the dash :s
maybe it needs some grease around the tailgate lock?
-Ben-

mine did this on my last car it was when the rear washer had split into the boot and the boot sensor was funny. i took the rear liner out and gave it a good dry out then was fine. maybe even if it is dry due to it being wet b4 then minerals may have deposited on the sensor and so would be faulty. cant be and expensive part. id get it from a breakers!
jon

[JWC]

this is different i know
but my boot light keeps coming and going on the dash :s
maybe it needs some grease around the tailgate lock?
-Ben-

mine did this on my last car it was when the rear washer had split into the boot and the boot sensor was funny. i took the rear liner out and gave it a good dry out then was fine. maybe even if it is dry due to it being wet b4 then minerals may have deposited on the sensor and so would be faulty. cant be and expensive part. id get it from a breakers!
jon

Easy one to fix and costs pennies even from VW - the switch gets corroded and costs about £1.90 there is a post somwhere on here that details the fix. Search for my posts its in there. Finding the bloody switch took the longests then it took me about 25 minutes to fix.

[tom16v]

just updating y'all. took the car to vw n they wanted £60 just to plug it into VAGCOM dont think so! tuk it to my mate who works for audi,plugged it in2 there's n its a faulty brake light switch! that could have been an expensive £60! at least its nothing major!

[tom16v]

further updates! needed to find out if the switch was a 2pin or 4pin (dont know why they made different ones!) so removed the switch to look, re-connected it and later that day the ESP light went out, so the car is now bak to normal! saved me a fiver anyway!

[sorted]

Exactly what i had to do mate,

Nice One