Help EPC light came on

Rozzie · Post by **Rozzie** » Fri Sep 30, 2005 4:47 pm

Hi,

Being a girl (no not blonde!!) my EPC light has come on and our manuals are not very helpful all they say is engine fault take to volkswagen dealer straight away. I cant afford this any thing i can do? and what does it mean???

Help much appriciated.

Thanks

xxxx

Silky V · Post by **Silky V** » Fri Sep 30, 2005 5:02 pm

Hi there,

I take it you don't want to pay the high costs of VW putting their diagnostic machine on your car. Where abouts do you live? Because my uncle has a specialist VW garage in Park Royal, London and can run Diagnostic checks on almost any car. He also has the VW diagnostic machine. I think he charges around Â£45 for this. I'll make sure and find out for you.

Rozzie · Post by **Rozzie** » Fri Sep 30, 2005 5:04 pm

sorry i'm up in scotland. But thanks for the offer? Do you have any idea what the fault is?

xxx

Silky V · Post by **Silky V** » Fri Sep 30, 2005 9:33 pm

No problem.

I think its probably your temperature sensor anyway. Because I had the same problem. Anyway its Green 4-pin and located on the water housing.

Many Thanks

Virdee

Rozzie · Post by **Rozzie** » Fri Sep 30, 2005 10:49 pm

is it serious away to drive down to stoke on trent in two weeks and need to know if my car will be ok??

xxx

Blackie · Post by **Blackie** » Sat Oct 01, 2005 12:13 pm

where abouts in scotland? i went to dave reid in forfar, he fixed my car for Â£121, needed some new bits and he ran it on the diagnostic machine thingy ma bobber.Put my car in monday evening picked it up wednesday, sorted!

CBurns · Post by **CBurns** » Sat Oct 01, 2005 3:15 pm

Rozzie,

Check that you are not having any problems with your brake lights not coming on or staying on all the time!!

There is a fault sometimes with the brake sensor ( a little ratchet thing on the brake pedal) it sticks on and causes the lights to stay on or not come on at all.

Think VW will charge throught the nose for this to run diagnostics and what not but this happened to me and was a simple fix.

Hope this helps

Chris

Neil Polo GTi · Post by **Neil Polo GTi** » Sat Oct 01, 2005 4:13 pm

Could be a number of things. Mine came on a month ago and it was caused by an arcing ignition lead. Needed 4 new ones but all sorted now.

inder · Post by **inder** » Sat Oct 01, 2005 11:26 pm

Arching in what sense, came out of the holders and bent in a bad way? or just from the curves it 'died'?

Thanks