Member Since: 12 Apr 2020
Location: Manchester
Posts: 4
Please help! suspension and handbreak
Ok this could be quite a long explanation.
My D3 was having problems starting in the frozen conditions just pumping smoke out of the exhaust and not turning over.... I found a video on youtube that showed a guy pouring hot water on a sensor at the front of the engine bay and this worked perfect.
yesterday I did the same thing and the car started, I instantly got an engine warning light come up, suspension disengaged, lowered itself and the parking break refused to disengage. I turned the car on and a off a few times and it rectified the issue.
This morning the car started with no issues, suspension set itself and off I went, about a mile down the road I got I a vibration through the accelerator pedal and all the warning lights came on.... ABS, engine management, parking break and tilt warning.
I pulled over to try and reset it with no luck. Ive just limped home with no suspension and all the warning lights on and lots of suspension warnings on the digital readout.
I read in another post that it could be a weak battery(this could make sense because of me trying to turn it over on the cold starts) I read it could be an ABS sensor (would this cause the cascade failures of suspension and parking break?) also what could have caused the vibration in the accelerator that triggered everything to fail?
any advice would be greatly appreciated.
50% of me wants the car to burn but 50% of me loves the car enough to not scrap it.
its a 55 plate D3 TDV6 S manual
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10th Jan 2021 2:36 pm
lynalldiscovery
Member Since: 22 Dec 2009
Location: Maidstone
Posts: 7274
Codes? pointless trying to diagnose without them, even if they are spurious they are still a starting point.
If no codes just burn it!
10th Jan 2021 3:20 pm
Gary Lockett
Member Since: 12 Apr 2020
Location: Manchester
Posts: 4
Just ordered an iCarsoft LR V1.0 to get the fault codes.
11th Jan 2021 12:30 am
lynalldiscovery
Member Since: 22 Dec 2009
Location: Maidstone
Posts: 7274
They are pretty good for the money.
Read codes, write them down, clear codes then read codes again, what codes now show up are the ones you need to check, there will be lots of nonsense, but a search on here will sort out whats what.
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