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Dean-VTR · 22nd June 2013, 20:22

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Originally Posted by sexy_gt

Any ideas on why rev dial has died?

Because the cars too powerful and the rev counter has been working over time and is a little fcuked off.

sexy_gt · 22nd June 2013, 20:33

Found 2 wired where the loom passes through the passenger wing, damaged been rubbing on the wing. Repaired and no better.

sexy_gt · 23rd June 2013, 11:39

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Originally Posted by Dean-VTR

Because the cars too powerful and the rev counter has been working over time and is a little fcuked off.

remember me saying its not feeling quick yesterday... I found the passenger caliper was binding. turns out the vtr hub I converted had some surface rust on the hub face... making the disc offset a bit. combined with new discs and pads it was rubbing lol. all sorted now.

however the abs and handbrake lights were on along with no rev dial.

upon inspection I found a wiring harness rubbing on the inner wing.

I found two wires that had rubbed, gone blue and the wire was black inside for about 16" down to the engine multiplug in the bay.

showing it repaired and tidied up...

after driving the car I am no better off

andy is going to dial in tomorrow and take a look in the ecu to see if the rev dial has been turned off (was fine the last time I drove it and ive not been in the ecu myself).

jpsaxo · 23rd June 2013, 12:48

It's almost definitely the wiring for the rev counter. Abs should be wiring but could easily be a sensor that's shit itself too

Car's looking really tidy there btw Stew

luthor1 · 23rd June 2013, 16:00

bin the ABS, new copper/nickel pipework and an interior brake bias controller, job done.

sexy_gt · 23rd June 2013, 16:21

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Originally Posted by jpsaxo

It's almost definitely the wiring for the rev counter. Abs should be wiring but could easily be a sensor that's shit itself too

Car's looking really tidy there btw Stew

how annoying having no rev dial! all sensors are giving the right readings...

tidy? hahaha

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Originally Posted by luthor1

bin the ABS, new copper/nickel pipework and an interior brake bias controller, job done.

yes but want wiring fixed rather than work around some iffy wiring.

BIG · 23rd June 2013, 20:06

Love the DIY mud guard like a boss.

Car looks good as always

axsaxoman · 24th June 2013, 11:53

sounds like a wiring problem if a few other things have also stopped working

jpsaxo · 26th June 2013, 07:57

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Originally Posted by sexy_gt

how annoying having no rev dial! all sensors are giving the right readings...

Haha I know that feeling mate, my own internal wiring was "Barry boy" at best for last summer hence changing it over winter. I drove back from Sandys with no speedo and no dash lights at all. I want to emphasise this was all my own wrong doing, nothing to do with Sandy

sexy_gt · 7th July 2013, 09:19

Removed the engine loom repaired one wire from ecu to fuel relay and found crank sensor almost broken where the wire joins the plug, replaced that... tidied up the connector on the wide band and still no joy with it.

Im pretty sure its not the engine loom now.

Alex^p · 7th July 2013, 10:55

Just throwing it out there but could something like a lexia or snap on diagnostics do a dial test?

sexy_gt · 7th July 2013, 17:03

I have changed the dials for another set and am still in the same boat. All day today searching and no joy.

jpsaxo · 8th July 2013, 06:12

Only thing you can do is find the Rev wires from the dials and trace it back towards the engine I reckon mate

sexy_gt · 8th July 2013, 12:06

Abs isn't working either though josh :/

sri_130 · 8th July 2013, 13:04

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Originally Posted by sexy_gt

Abs isn't working either though josh :/

Fuse/relay?

You got a Haynes? Wiring diagram is all it's good for anyway.

Chr15 · 8th July 2013, 19:33

ABS wiring diagram isnt in the Haynes iirc, its on of the ones you have to ask Citroen for. Mine wasn't working before, turns out it had been rewired wrong.

sri_130 · 8th July 2013, 22:00

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Originally Posted by Chr15

ABS wiring diagram isnt in the Haynes iirc, its on of the ones you have to ask Citroen for. Mine wasn't working before, turns out it had been rewired wrong.

The tacho is... In basic form. The fuses and relays with their number and locations is half useful.

Judging by the diagram, it's unlikely be anything close to the cluster or fuse/relay related. It shares and earth with the speedo and a fuse (passenger fusebox) and another (engine fusebox) and a single connection to the ecu.

My poor memory and general lack of knowledge of cars might not assist here but did you recently replace an abs sensor? The diagram omits how the car reads speed info - maybe this is from the abs? Is that sensor ok?

I probably imagined that you changed one, so apologies in advance.