VRO6MO Posted February 20, 2008 Report Share Posted February 20, 2008 Let me start of painting the scene. I was happyly driving to work yesterday on a crisp and sunny morning during rush hour towards Bristol minding mine own business, then suddently out of the blue the car loses all power and the engine died while it was still moving (40-50). Lucky enough within yards there was large enterance to one of the local quarries, so i managed to get it into the opening with its own momentum. So my initial though the fuel was dirty/contaminated, etc. At this time, it been stationary for a few minutes, so i tried to start it - joy of joys it started but within 10-15secs engine died again but with addition of the DSG selection display flashing away, power-steering failure, EPC failure, ESP was conutiously off - all major electronics. So i called VW Assistant to report it and they arrived with 90 minutes. So he connected his laptop to the car and ran the tests and it turned out to be a fault with the CAN-BUS network system in the car. In other words the car's data 'spine' was broken/faulty so all the car's individual systems could not communicate with each other. So the car was towed to my nearest dealership (weston-super-mare) to be investigated further and according to them its under warranty due to this very freaky weird failure. At the moment im driving a hire car Europcar (paid by VW) until the car is 100%. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brisel Posted February 20, 2008 Report Share Posted February 20, 2008 Don't suppose the hire car is an R32? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
VRO6MO Posted February 20, 2008 Author Report Share Posted February 20, 2008 sadly not . ive been give an nippy Astra until its fixed. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Riz Posted February 21, 2008 Report Share Posted February 21, 2008 Its very good of them to sort it out under warranty as it wont be cheap to replace the whole can-bus nextwork if they can do it at all. Riz Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
burble Posted February 21, 2008 Report Share Posted February 21, 2008 Why is good of them to do it? The car is under warranty so I would expect them to do it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cuprabob Posted February 21, 2008 Report Share Posted February 21, 2008 It'll probably turn out to be a CANbus control module that's failed so I don't think it will be that big an issue to resolve for them. And I agree with Burble, it's not nice of them to fix it it's their responsibility to do so. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
v6tas Posted February 22, 2008 Report Share Posted February 22, 2008 [ QUOTE ] Why is good of them to do it? The car is under warranty so I would expect them to do it. [/ QUOTE ] Couldnt agree more. Its a suprise they are not trying to quote some "small print" to wriggle out of doing the job as it expensive ! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
VRO6MO Posted February 22, 2008 Author Report Share Posted February 22, 2008 I got it back now and it was under warranty. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
burble Posted February 22, 2008 Report Share Posted February 22, 2008 Glad to hear it Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cuprabob Posted February 22, 2008 Report Share Posted February 22, 2008 Glad to hear it's sorted. Did they say exactly what failed? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
VRO6MO Posted February 22, 2008 Author Report Share Posted February 22, 2008 What i understood was that the software (i mean the firmware) on one of eight (that right eight of them) computer/microcontroller module of the car was sending incorrect data to the other units and thus cause cascading effect on the rest of the system. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Riz Posted February 24, 2008 Report Share Posted February 24, 2008 [ QUOTE ] Why is good of them to do it? The car is under warranty so I would expect them to do it. [/ QUOTE ]Oooops sorry, I mis-calculated and thought that your car was out of warranty. Riz Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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