Any Volkswagen experts out there?

Obfleur · Post by **Obfleur** » Mon Mar 16, 2009 11:25 pm

What does this mean?

I'm eating chocolate donuts! Woop woop.

Guest · Post by **Guest** » Mon Mar 16, 2009 11:38 pm

Hmm. Not familiar with the symbol beneath it (my own VW is a M reg polo, so probably a several-times-removed ancestor to yours), but it does look like it might represent the starter motor.

What is happening when the light shows, and is the light on continuously or intermittently?

[EDIT]

Have done a little searching, and found this article: http://www.avforums.com/forums/motoring ... light.html

The symbol referred to in that looks like yours, but without the lightning bolt, so it could be the engine management (which mine wouldn't have), or it might be something more electrically related.

Aside from that, dunno really. Haven't got much experience with computerised cars. Still, at least mine can't be commandeered by Terminatrices.

Obfleur · Post by **Obfleur** » Tue Mar 17, 2009 12:36 am

My car is from 1989! A red Volkswagen Golf.

It's all sort of random. It usually comes on after 3 - 13 minutes. It can then flick on and off at its own will. It's usually on between five and... I don't know, two minutes maybe.

Thanks for the help!

Guest · Post by **Guest** » Tue Mar 17, 2009 1:36 am

Duude!

There I was, thinking you'd have some 21st Century JohnnyCab of a Passat, or something, and all the time, you're driving one half a decade older than mine!

Not going to be engine management, then.

Have now found this - http://www.ask-knappy.com/knappy/Car%20Stuff/67.pdf - which appears to apply to all VWs from '83-'92.

From those diagrams, it looks like it's the emission control system. So, not my first guess at lighting-bolt-related at all.

Good thing I'm not a mechanic. "Hmm, everything looks ok. Ah, there's your problem, not enough lightning bolts. Try raping and pillaging in the name of Thor for a few days and it'll fix itself, sir."

Then again...

Obfleur · Post by **Obfleur** » Tue Mar 17, 2009 2:05 pm

Hah! Fantastic!

Thank you very much

But one question remains: when will we all get our very own JohnnyCab?

Guest · Post by **Guest** » Tue Mar 17, 2009 2:42 pm

I dunno. Doesn't the very nature of a JohnnyCab kind of imply that they're not for individual ownership?

Oh, and chocolate donuts - very nice.

Predabot · Post by **Predabot** » Tue Mar 17, 2009 6:21 pm

Is it yellow Robin? Please tell me it's yellow!

Or even better, that it's got that GOLD finish!

*reads second post*

...Cor blimey... it's bloody Cliffjumper...

Guest · Post by **Guest** » Tue Mar 17, 2009 8:33 pm

And once again, we are not astounded by Predabot's lack of grip on reality.

Metal Vendetta · Post by **Metal Vendetta** » Wed Mar 18, 2009 4:00 pm

I've had several VW Polos, but they either never had that light or it never came on. :/

Brendocon · Post by **Brendocon** » Wed Mar 18, 2009 4:07 pm

Predabot wrote:...Cor blimey... it's bloody Cliffjumper...

How does being a VW Golf make it Cliffjumper, when Cliffjumper was a deformed Porsche 924 Turbo?

Guest · Post by **Guest** » Wed Mar 18, 2009 5:19 pm

Brendocon wrote:How does being a VW Golf make it Cliffjumper, when Cliffjumper was a deformed Porsche 924 Turbo?

Or how would a yellow VW Golf get to be Bumblebee, when Bumblebee was a VW Type 1.