Hi . This is my first post on here .
I aquired an 07 t5 long wheel base 4 motion last June for £8k ...
With full service history mostly at VW main dealers .
which drives perfectly . I then added windows for £500.
Just before new year however - the ABS lamp came on ...
But only intermittently ...
and eventually the hand break lamp came on, then the warning beeps started . And then the speedo started to behave irrationally - eventually just not working - and the fuel gauge warning lamp came on unnecessarily .
I went to VW Sinclair Cardiff (main dealer) and suggested to them that it could be a wiring problem ... ? They looked at it for half an hour and concluded that they needed more time .
With a further hours work (on the computer) they concluded the ABS module was at fault - and quoted just under £2k for a new one (which would include the pump as VW parts only does this as a single unit) .
They offered no alternative solution . So I looked here .
After a thorough read up I got a local mechanic to remove the ABS module and sent it to ECU testing.com ... who declared the unit working with no fault ... and suggested, when asked, that it sounded like a wiring problem (by the way VW Sinclair gave me the only code as 'non communication') . I then took the van to VW specialists in Sully who have looked it over ...
They concluded, after various false leads ... that it's a wiring problem but that there are over one hundred wires to test ... There sparky could do this at a cost of £80 plus tax per hour ... Time estimate ?? Probably at least a day and no guarantee that it'll be fixed . They also suggest that I could go back to VW Sinclair who in theory would replace the working module and then be forced to find the real error and fix that within the 2k cost .
I've spent circa £400 so far and I'm in week 6 .
How can it cost between 1 and 2.5k to fix some dodgy wiring ?
What kind of a world have we made for ourselves ?
It just doesn't seem possible .
So anyone got any ideas beyond an endless sparkys wage or £2k to replace a not broken item ?
Many many thanks in advance .
In the words of Cool Hand Luke ...
"What we have here ... is a failure ... to comunicate"
I aquired an 07 t5 long wheel base 4 motion last June for £8k ...
With full service history mostly at VW main dealers .
which drives perfectly . I then added windows for £500.
Just before new year however - the ABS lamp came on ...
But only intermittently ...
and eventually the hand break lamp came on, then the warning beeps started . And then the speedo started to behave irrationally - eventually just not working - and the fuel gauge warning lamp came on unnecessarily .
I went to VW Sinclair Cardiff (main dealer) and suggested to them that it could be a wiring problem ... ? They looked at it for half an hour and concluded that they needed more time .
With a further hours work (on the computer) they concluded the ABS module was at fault - and quoted just under £2k for a new one (which would include the pump as VW parts only does this as a single unit) .
They offered no alternative solution . So I looked here .
After a thorough read up I got a local mechanic to remove the ABS module and sent it to ECU testing.com ... who declared the unit working with no fault ... and suggested, when asked, that it sounded like a wiring problem (by the way VW Sinclair gave me the only code as 'non communication') . I then took the van to VW specialists in Sully who have looked it over ...
They concluded, after various false leads ... that it's a wiring problem but that there are over one hundred wires to test ... There sparky could do this at a cost of £80 plus tax per hour ... Time estimate ?? Probably at least a day and no guarantee that it'll be fixed . They also suggest that I could go back to VW Sinclair who in theory would replace the working module and then be forced to find the real error and fix that within the 2k cost .
I've spent circa £400 so far and I'm in week 6 .
How can it cost between 1 and 2.5k to fix some dodgy wiring ?
What kind of a world have we made for ourselves ?
It just doesn't seem possible .
So anyone got any ideas beyond an endless sparkys wage or £2k to replace a not broken item ?
Many many thanks in advance .
In the words of Cool Hand Luke ...
"What we have here ... is a failure ... to comunicate"