Normthe1
8th June 2012, 12:13 PM
G'day all,
This morning while driving to work my radio turned itself off for no apparent reason. It happened the night before but came on again after a couple of minutes. About 5 minutes later I started getting many, many alarms, HDC, Transmission, EPB etc, in fact all of them. About 30 seconds later the car just shut down. Just before it shut down I noticed that the radio LCD screen was showing "Voltage Low" which surprised me because I replaced the battery about 2 weeks ago after intermittent Battery warning lights and then a failure to start.
Anyway, I waited 10 minutes and tried to restart without success. Last I saw of it was on the back of a tow truck on the way to the dealer as I had to get to work. I should note that it was quite wet this morning.
So, a search of the forums reveals a few possible causes, I'm hoping it was the Brake Switch because it sounds the cheapest.
IT, is an '05 D3 TDV6. I will let you know what the dealer reckons when I hear from them, but has anyone had something similar happen???
This morning while driving to work my radio turned itself off for no apparent reason. It happened the night before but came on again after a couple of minutes. About 5 minutes later I started getting many, many alarms, HDC, Transmission, EPB etc, in fact all of them. About 30 seconds later the car just shut down. Just before it shut down I noticed that the radio LCD screen was showing "Voltage Low" which surprised me because I replaced the battery about 2 weeks ago after intermittent Battery warning lights and then a failure to start.
Anyway, I waited 10 minutes and tried to restart without success. Last I saw of it was on the back of a tow truck on the way to the dealer as I had to get to work. I should note that it was quite wet this morning.
So, a search of the forums reveals a few possible causes, I'm hoping it was the Brake Switch because it sounds the cheapest.
IT, is an '05 D3 TDV6. I will let you know what the dealer reckons when I hear from them, but has anyone had something similar happen???