shad_68
DOOD looks like a lady
My family's petrol Golf3 won't start anymore - when you turn the key, nothing happens.
It's not the battery, headlights work and the starter doesn't engage at all.
Other symptoms:
- Even with ignition on, none of the check lights in the dashboard come on
- headlights and dashboard illumination works
- putting on the indicators doesn't work, no light in the dashboard, no relay click and the actual indicators don't turn on - however the head/taillight on the according site turn on
- hazard lights work - lights in the dasboard as well as indicators on the outside
Before this turned into a permamnet problem we had this happen randomly three times. Each time the car would start up and drive fine, but after a short distance (~1km) it would just shut down. IIRC it always happened when slowing down, and it felt as if the revs were simply dropping to zero.
After that, the car wouldn't start again. The first time, it eventually worked after 5 to 10 minutes, and continued to work normally for the next few days.
The second time it didn't start up within the next hour, and we towed it to our mechanic. He had it in the garage for a few days, checked if he could find anything, and let it run to see if it'd happen again. It did, once, but even then he couldn't see what's wrong.
Shortly after we got it back, it died once again while on the road. That was Saturday, two weeks ago, and it hasn't started up since.
Needless to say, we're out of ideas what the hell this could be...
It's not the battery, headlights work and the starter doesn't engage at all.
Other symptoms:
- Even with ignition on, none of the check lights in the dashboard come on
- headlights and dashboard illumination works
- putting on the indicators doesn't work, no light in the dashboard, no relay click and the actual indicators don't turn on - however the head/taillight on the according site turn on
- hazard lights work - lights in the dasboard as well as indicators on the outside
Before this turned into a permamnet problem we had this happen randomly three times. Each time the car would start up and drive fine, but after a short distance (~1km) it would just shut down. IIRC it always happened when slowing down, and it felt as if the revs were simply dropping to zero.
After that, the car wouldn't start again. The first time, it eventually worked after 5 to 10 minutes, and continued to work normally for the next few days.
The second time it didn't start up within the next hour, and we towed it to our mechanic. He had it in the garage for a few days, checked if he could find anything, and let it run to see if it'd happen again. It did, once, but even then he couldn't see what's wrong.
Shortly after we got it back, it died once again while on the road. That was Saturday, two weeks ago, and it hasn't started up since.
Needless to say, we're out of ideas what the hell this could be...