Help! Warning Lights??

[AudiA4Driver]

Hi!
I have a 1995 1.8 Auto with a problem. It doesn't seem to want to hold any charge in the battery. Car never seems to want to start, have taken battery off and have replaced this and then the alternator but still the same problem.

Now the car seem to "rev" itself when there is no pressure applied to the accelerator, the lights flicker on and off and if left too long the car stalls.

An orange light has come on intermittantly with a picture of a car with a key underneath ( I think).

Anybody any ideas? I'm running out of them.

Cheers.

[kenney]

Hi Check the earthing strap from the engine to the body and from the body to the battery.The orange light is the control light for the immo,and is lighting probably because there is not enough current from the battery

[AudiA4Driver]

Thanks, I'll give that a try!!! Is it a common problem? I've had the car 4 years and this is the first problem I've come across!

[JIGGY C]

Hi!
I have a 1995 1.8 Auto with a problem. It doesn't seem to want to hold any charge in the battery. Car never seems to want to start, have taken battery off and have replaced this and then the alternator but still the same problem.

Now the car seem to "rev" itself when there is no pressure applied to the accelerator, the lights flicker on and off and if left too long the car stalls.

An orange light has come on intermittantly with a picture of a car with a key underneath ( I think).

Anybody any ideas? I'm running out of them.

Cheers.

Hiya, another thing worth checking is the small nokia amp on the rear speaker - mine was buzzing (alive) when the car was off and kept draining the battery - I had a garage look over the car and they only realised that the speaker was faulty when they heard the speaker buzzing in the boot (not very loud though)