Hello, I am away from home and unable to get to my 300tdi disco, it is left with my (fairly capable) better half, i hope to get to it this weekend to work on it myself but any suggestions for work she can do in the mean time would be helpful.
Since coming back from a clutch change it has had intermittent failure of the mfu circuits, temperature gauge to maximum, and occasional failure to start often following abs misbehaviour. She turns the key and apparently it clicks once only. If she leaves it for a while (she says a few hours normally) it starts and then performs perfectly.
I suspect an earth has come loose with the clutch job, probably either a body to battery connection or body to chassis intermittently knocking out the ground for the mfu and whatever wizardry tells it to fire the starter motor. I asked her to try putting a jump lead from engine to battery and then from seat belt mount to battery without success making me suspect it is more likely to be an internal circuit to body earth. Is there an earth point that would tie together the abs computer, starting gear, mfu, and temperature gauge I can point her at to fix before i get a chance to get at the thing? Alternatively does anyone have any ideas what else may connect all the symptoms, or should I book an exorcist?
Since coming back from a clutch change it has had intermittent failure of the mfu circuits, temperature gauge to maximum, and occasional failure to start often following abs misbehaviour. She turns the key and apparently it clicks once only. If she leaves it for a while (she says a few hours normally) it starts and then performs perfectly.
I suspect an earth has come loose with the clutch job, probably either a body to battery connection or body to chassis intermittently knocking out the ground for the mfu and whatever wizardry tells it to fire the starter motor. I asked her to try putting a jump lead from engine to battery and then from seat belt mount to battery without success making me suspect it is more likely to be an internal circuit to body earth. Is there an earth point that would tie together the abs computer, starting gear, mfu, and temperature gauge I can point her at to fix before i get a chance to get at the thing? Alternatively does anyone have any ideas what else may connect all the symptoms, or should I book an exorcist?