No idea what is happening here

Eircom_Sucks

So my car was vandalised , front window and back and 2 driver side windows and driver mirror obliterated

Vw passat 2007

Now car was taken away by insurance company to assess etc

Rest is irrelevant , but got car back 3 weeks after it was originally taken , assume it was kept in a yard and in rain etc , so smells damp as fook , etc , will be getting full valet done

So i just got all the windows replaced so its airtight etc , but lots of lights flash on and off and also beeps like there is a seatbelt undone despite all them being connected etc , drives fine , no issue with battery

Any idea wtf is going on ?

Eircom_Sucks

Pic of lights on

Atlantic Dawn

First port of call would be to get an engine fault code reader connected to see what faults are being indicated by the check engine light.

My guess is your car was immersed in water and the electric are possibly screwed.

SweetCaliber

Atlantic Dawn wrote: »

First port of call would be to get an engine fault code reader connected to see what faults are being indicated by the check engine light.

My guess is your car was immersed in water and the electric are possibly screwed.

Yes, get your car scanned and see what codes its throwing up. It might be that the water damage has shorted out different sensors/parts of the wiring and the error codes on the dash might not be exactly true, for example your power steering light is on, but is your power steering working correctly?

First course of action is getting the error codes scanned and then you'll know what your dealing with.

Eircom_Sucks

Cheers folks

corks finest

Eircom_Sucks wrote: »

Cheers folks

Like your nick,and oh boy do they,,eircom suck

Eircom_Sucks

corks finest wrote: »

Like your nick,and oh boy do they,,eircom suck

Cheers , saw it as a pubs wifi a few years ago and its stuck ha ha



My problem seems to have resolved itself , lights no longer comming on and beeping stopped

Strange

Will still get it checkef

SweetCaliber

Eircom_Sucks wrote: »

Cheers , saw it as a pubs wifi a few years ago and its stuck ha ha



My problem seems to have resolved itself , lights no longer comming on and beeping stopped

Strange

Will still get it checkef

Could be a bad ground, could be a short, could be anything, I'd get it checked still, those lights could easily come back on or worse could happen.

Alanstrainor

So if I'm reading this correctly, the insurance company left the car completely exposed to weather for three weeks and now the car has a multitude of electrical faults? It sounds like someone has massively dropped the ball here, and this car may never be right again as a result. I'd have thought it would need to be completely covered or stored in doors as they assessed to prevent the issues you're having now...

I presume you claimed on your comprehensive policy? Even still, things weren't handled correctly.

Eircom_Sucks

Alanstrainor wrote: »

So if I'm reading this correctly, the insurance company left the car completely exposed to weather for three weeks and now the car has a multitude of electrical faults? It sounds like someone has massively dropped the ball here, and this car may never be right again as a result. I'd have thought it would need to be completely covered or stored in doors as they assessed to prevent the issues you're having now...

I presume you claimed on your comprehensive policy? Even still, things weren't handled correctly.

Yeah comprehensive policy

Im assuminv it was kept out in a yard , though ive no idea if it actually was

Valued the car at €2700 and said they had quoats of €3000 to repair it , yet said un-Economical to fix if , they put it down as a category c write off , but ive had the car 8 years and not 1 single issue ever with it , sails through nct , passat sportline with fogs and sunroof etc , i love it

So i took the write off amount and just got the 4 windows all replaced for €550

Just need to get my mirror fixed ( got one off a car for breaking ) €30

New bootlid €50 and my brother to respray the lid ( hes a pane beater )

rovertom

Eircom_Sucks wrote: »

Yeah comprehensive policy

Im assuminv it was kept out in a yard , though ive no idea if it actually was

Valued the car at €2700 and said they had quoats of €3000 to repair it , yet said un-Economical to fix if , they put it down as a category c write off , but ive had the car 8 years and not 1 single issue ever with it , sails through nct , passat sportline with fogs and sunroof etc , i love it

So i took the write off amount and just got the 4 windows all replaced for €550

Just need to get my mirror fixed ( got one off a car for breaking ) €30

New bootlid €50 and my brother to respray the lid ( hes a pane beater )

Makes more sense now. They basically took ownership of the car which they deemed a write off. It was then their business to store it however they wished. You took the settlement for the car and I'm guessing they reduced the settlement by X amount to allow you to keep the car.
You.certainly have no comeback now with insurer re how the car was stored.

Del2005

Eircom_Sucks wrote: »

Yeah comprehensive policy

Im assuminv it was kept out in a yard , though ive no idea if it actually was

Valued the car at €2700 and said they had quoats of €3000 to repair it , yet said un-Economical to fix if , they put it down as a category c write off , but ive had the car 8 years and not 1 single issue ever with it , sails through nct , passat sportline with fogs and sunroof etc , i love it

So i took the write off amount and just got the 4 windows all replaced for €550

Just need to get my mirror fixed ( got one off a car for breaking ) €30

New bootlid €50 and my brother to respray the lid ( hes a pane beater )

Unfortunately that is most likely going to change. The cars electrical components were left exposed to the elements for 3 weeks so this is just the start of your problems. Have you checked under the carpets for water/damp? If it's damp under them then the electrical system is in trouble.

Eircom_Sucks

Del2005 wrote: »

Unfortunately that is most likely going to change. The cars electrical components were left exposed to the elements for 3 weeks so this is just the start of your problems. Have you checked under the carpets for water/damp? If it's damp under them then the electrical system is in trouble.

Havnt checked no

The electrical issues seemed to have stopped since last night , the car stands me f all

Im not gonna pump money into it if it turns out it has bigger issues , ill just sell it to a breaker for x and buy a new car , funds are there etc

Tommorow ill take it to a friends garage and get him to run a diagnostic on it ( yep i know that it may be ok and come back worse etc ) but i’ll see what it says

Eric Cartman

rent a desiccant dehumidifier from a hire shop, seal up the car and put the climate control on recirculate, leave it work away for 24 hours checking to empty the water every 6 hours or so, it will help clear up the moisture.

Del2005

Eircom_Sucks wrote: »

Havnt checked no

The electrical issues seemed to have stopped since last night , the car stands me f all

Im not gonna pump money into it if it turns out it has bigger issues , ill just sell it to a breaker for x and buy a new car , funds are there etc

Tommorow ill take it to a friends garage and get him to run a diagnostic on it ( yep i know that it may be ok and come back worse etc ) but i’ll see what it says

Diagnostic could be good today but something could fail tomorrow or at any time once they've been soaked. It's not something I'd like to risk as it usually fails at the worse time. The fact that the lights have reset would mean that there's water somewhere in your electrical system and that's an issue.

Eric Cartman wrote: »

rent a desiccant dehumidifier from a hire shop, seal up the car and put the climate control on recirculate, leave it work away for 24 hours checking to empty the water every 6 hours or so, it will help clear up the moisture.

That'll get the moisture from the carpets and seats but won't help the electronics that run the car.

ebbsy

Get a solicitor to write to the insurance company.

A small outlay might prove worthwhile.

Del2005

ebbsy wrote: »

Get a solicitor to write to the insurance company.

A small outlay might prove worthwhile.

The OP bought the wreck off the insurance company a solicitor will be of no use.

Doctors room ghost

If it was me I’d get the windows replaced which you’ve done and get it valeted.id chance driving it then and it should be fine.maybe stay off the motorway for a week or two until you can trust it won’t sh1t itself and have to be recovered at motorway prices.
If it’s only small damp she would dry herself out.manys the car that got flooded and got going again

Lantus

Passat cpu panels are under drivers seat in those models. A good dry out might resolve but it just depends.

Cost to fix is pretty high if it doesn't rectify over time. Knew someone same thing happened to after window was left open. Everything bar aircon returned to original condition.

TheBoyConor

It's cooked.

The body control modules in those passats are underneath the carpets in the floor pan. (an absolutely retarded design decision in any case since they are gauranteed to be knackered if any water accumulates in the floor pan).

Happened my sisters passat where the drain under the windscreen blocked and water overflowed into the passenger footwell flooding the ECU. It was never the same after, constant problems until she got rid of it.

My advice is to get it tried out and running well and then donedeal it asap. Sell it as seen, out the gap, no comebacks. Perhaps you could sell it to some VW fanboy.

If you are a real nerd you could take out the carpet and remove the ECU and open it up and dry it out with a fan heater or leave it on an electric heating mat for a weekend.
See it might work for a while but residual moisture will slowly cook the components after weeks or months. To have any chance of a lasting fix you'll have to dry everything out to bone dry before putting them back in action.

OldMrBrennan83

Open it and blast it with electrical solvent cleaner.

Eggs For Dinner

I presume your insurer asked you for an engineer's report to put the car back on cover?

cruizer101

TheBoyConor wrote: »

My advice is to get it tried out and running well and then donedeal it asap. Sell it as seen, out the gap, no comebacks. Perhaps you could sell it to some VW fanboy.

Thats a bit of dickish thing to do. OP has got their money for the car so aren't out a pocket, would be pretty sh**ty to land some innocent unfortunate with a car that is likely going to have a lot of problems.
Fair enough if OP wants to take their chances with it themselves but don't knowingly pass on a bucket of sh*t.

Del2005

Patww79 wrote: »

Open it and blast it with electrical solvent cleaner.

Once the OP started the car it was too late to do any of this. Once electronics get wet and get powered up they will eventually fail, the only question is how soon.

power pants

cruizer101 wrote: »

Thats a bit of dickish thing to do. OP has got their money for the car so aren't out a pocket, would be pretty sh**ty to land some innocent unfortunate with a car that is likely going to have a lot of problems.
Fair enough if OP wants to take their chances with it themselves but don't knowingly pass on a bucket of sh*t.

If everyone has a moral compass like yours less than 1% of cars would be for sale in Ireland

paddydriver

OP... Was the battery fully discharged in the car whilst it was stored or any chance battery was removed altogether at some stage? My experience with VW is that if above happens then the warning lights will not go out until car has been driven for hour or two. ESP, Emissions, Engine Fault, Airbag light are main culprits. Have seen this on my Dad's 2005 Golf and also on my 2006 GTI recently.

TheBoyConor

cruizer101 wrote: »

Thats a bit of dickish thing to do. OP has got their money for the car so aren't out a pocket, would be pretty sh**ty to land some innocent unfortunate with a car that is likely going to have a lot of problems.
Fair enough if OP wants to take their chances with it themselves but don't knowingly pass on a bucket of sh*t.

power pants wrote: »

If everyone has a moral compass like yours less than 1% of cars would be for sale in Ireland

You are not wrong. But if everyone were to have that sort of conscience then Donedeal and sites like it would go out of business within a week because no-one would be selling any second hand cars or machines.

Half of the sales on DD are either lads "testing the waters" or trying to offload some troublesome ball of shyte before it blows up.

Eircom_Sucks

Op poster here

Id never try re-sel it fullstop , id use it as a trade in ( scrappage etc )

The car wasn’t soaked , im gonna drive it till it stops