wilsonudevil
05-03-2008, 08:06 PM
The speedo on my 1.8T '99 Passat intermittently dies. Usually when the revs go up, or when I drive faster than 40mph. The speedo wavers a bit and then falls back to zero. It then struggles to come back to life before dying again!
Anyone else had a similar problem? Some of the guys on here experienced the fault when their engine speed sensor got wet but then it returned to normal when it dried out. Mine doesn't want to though!
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Thought it might be worth mentioning- I took my car to a VW specialist garage and they told me that it was a fault with the dashpod. They took it out and sent it of to be reconditioned. 4 weeks later it still hadn't come back! In the end I got them to fit a new dashpod from VW for free. But lo and behold, as I drove off the fault returned!
Anyone else had a similar problem? Some of the guys on here experienced the fault when their engine speed sensor got wet but then it returned to normal when it dried out. Mine doesn't want to though!
/edit
Thought it might be worth mentioning- I took my car to a VW specialist garage and they told me that it was a fault with the dashpod. They took it out and sent it of to be reconditioned. 4 weeks later it still hadn't come back! In the end I got them to fit a new dashpod from VW for free. But lo and behold, as I drove off the fault returned!