Studentas
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Good day,
Found lots of info about my gremlins on the car, but i have few questions to ask, that makes me confused.
I should probably mention this in the beginning. I recently swapped manual heater matrix with digital one. As i was doing that i also replaced faulty thermostat (it was always open, my car barely reaches working temperature)
The digital climate control and thermostat works as they should.
My car: 2002 1.6 Petrol.
Now about the gremlins, i have 3 gremlins..
Gremlin #1 Reverse lights and rear wiper (when front ones are on and i put gear in reverse) doesn't work. Probably i forgot something to connect...
Does anyone could confirm me this? Fuses for reverse lights are F30 + F31?
And the connector for reverse lights + wiper is one of 3 connectors on the back of the fuse box? Is there any other shared fuse?
Gremlin #2 Radiator Cooling fan doesn't show any signs of life. Long story short.. my car started to heat past normal temp. so i took the car to mechanic, the fault was the cooling fan itself (giving direct power it doesn't spin) it was replaced with a working one. After that i got my A/C tested and refilled. The magnetic clutch engages, works few secs, turns of, couple seconds later it engages again, but the fan doesn't kick in. So the pressure rises too high so the clutch turns of.
Should the fan turn on at speed 1 or at full speed? when i turn on A/C?
After the cooling fan swap i haven't hear or see it work (i keep popping the hood to see ) my car hasn't overheated since. Is relay T7 and fuses F7/F6 only used for cooling fan?
Gremlin #3 The mysterious "beep beep, loose connection, ASR/ESP failure, sometimes with alternator failure..."
Sometimes the car cuts out, with those messages. While driving, in idle, even when the key is set to MAR.
The error that keeps popping out after every cut out is C1521 CAN communication problem. (there are few other errors, but mechanic told me this one is most important and it causes cut outs)
Symptoms:
Seems to cut out while engine is cold or hot. One cut out usually fallows by another one. Cuts out if the key is turned off. No stalling. Before i changed the battery when the car cuts out i couldn't start it up asap. Car security flashes, i would need to wait few mins to start it up again. On rare occasions i could experience a "jump start" while driving the car, it would start to cut out, revs drop, car shakes but the engine fires up again, and i could drive...
What i've done:
Cleaned D40, fuse box
Bought new battery (old one wasn't able to keep the charge)
Cleaned throttle body
I also looked at the ecu pins, all seemed to be in line, (i haven't looked on the soldered ball ends, so i won't cross that out)
To do:
Check C15 earth.
Is there anything else i could check that i forgot to write? Could faulty crank/rmp sensor cause cut out while idle or when the key is set to MAR? Can i do/check something else before i book for an ECU check/ball joins resolder?
Sorry for my China wall, thank for your time and i would appreciate for any advise regarding my gremlins. I want them evicted!
Found lots of info about my gremlins on the car, but i have few questions to ask, that makes me confused.
I should probably mention this in the beginning. I recently swapped manual heater matrix with digital one. As i was doing that i also replaced faulty thermostat (it was always open, my car barely reaches working temperature)
The digital climate control and thermostat works as they should.
My car: 2002 1.6 Petrol.
Now about the gremlins, i have 3 gremlins..
Gremlin #1 Reverse lights and rear wiper (when front ones are on and i put gear in reverse) doesn't work. Probably i forgot something to connect...
Does anyone could confirm me this? Fuses for reverse lights are F30 + F31?
And the connector for reverse lights + wiper is one of 3 connectors on the back of the fuse box? Is there any other shared fuse?
Gremlin #2 Radiator Cooling fan doesn't show any signs of life. Long story short.. my car started to heat past normal temp. so i took the car to mechanic, the fault was the cooling fan itself (giving direct power it doesn't spin) it was replaced with a working one. After that i got my A/C tested and refilled. The magnetic clutch engages, works few secs, turns of, couple seconds later it engages again, but the fan doesn't kick in. So the pressure rises too high so the clutch turns of.
Should the fan turn on at speed 1 or at full speed? when i turn on A/C?
After the cooling fan swap i haven't hear or see it work (i keep popping the hood to see ) my car hasn't overheated since. Is relay T7 and fuses F7/F6 only used for cooling fan?
Gremlin #3 The mysterious "beep beep, loose connection, ASR/ESP failure, sometimes with alternator failure..."
Sometimes the car cuts out, with those messages. While driving, in idle, even when the key is set to MAR.
The error that keeps popping out after every cut out is C1521 CAN communication problem. (there are few other errors, but mechanic told me this one is most important and it causes cut outs)
Symptoms:
Seems to cut out while engine is cold or hot. One cut out usually fallows by another one. Cuts out if the key is turned off. No stalling. Before i changed the battery when the car cuts out i couldn't start it up asap. Car security flashes, i would need to wait few mins to start it up again. On rare occasions i could experience a "jump start" while driving the car, it would start to cut out, revs drop, car shakes but the engine fires up again, and i could drive...
What i've done:
Cleaned D40, fuse box
Bought new battery (old one wasn't able to keep the charge)
Cleaned throttle body
I also looked at the ecu pins, all seemed to be in line, (i haven't looked on the soldered ball ends, so i won't cross that out)
To do:
Check C15 earth.
Is there anything else i could check that i forgot to write? Could faulty crank/rmp sensor cause cut out while idle or when the key is set to MAR? Can i do/check something else before i book for an ECU check/ball joins resolder?
Sorry for my China wall, thank for your time and i would appreciate for any advise regarding my gremlins. I want them evicted!