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Posted by Mike G on October 23, 2005, 9:35 pm, in reply to "Re: VW Golf 1.8petrol... K reg Eng Code AAM - Still DEAD !"
Ok, you can draw breath now. ( thanks Mike F for the last post)..
As I say It Lives, but Im almost too ashamed to tell you what it was.. and I have considered lying - but I wont
Right mon ami, decided to excersise the little grey cells (!) and as I mentioned before, go back to basics.
Went to the vehicle, decided as I had nothing hapening at the spi unit, unplug the 4 way multiplug, and start checking wire by wire back through - reasoning being, I had to have 'missed' something.
Unplugged the connector, peeled back the rubber cover on the plug ( to get the multimeter in ) - there it was --- 3 out of 4 wires broken!
I have to say, I stood looking at it for what seemed like 3 days, and thought -- Have I just done that!? Anyway, stuck the wires back in ( testing purposes ) turned the key - and you guessed the rest.
Thinking about it now , the jigsaw comes together.. the first problem that I sorted straight away was the "excessivly" split spi mounting rubber gasket - now I reckon that as it was almost split in two, the wires had been tugging for a while , getting progressivly worse.
When the guy went to start it outside the shops - that was the last tug.. the vibration of the engine on the starter finished them off.
So there you have it.
Who's laughing ? Who's looking at this aghast?
Still.... There's a moral in here somehwere!
Thank you all for all your help... its not all for nothing as it all goes down in the litle black book/grey cells and is there for future use.. and hopefully will save someone else someday. I know its the first thing I will check in future!
Please archive this quickly so I dont keep seeing it !!
Mike

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