[FONT=arial"]My newly aquired Cayman already has a small problem. There is a red light flashing in the top corner of the temperature gauge. I did see this light flashing when I went on a test drive but it stopped after a couple of minutes. The owner said it was due to slightly low coolant level, it required a top-up so I disregarded it. It never came on again during my test run.
Today when I went for a run it started flashing immediately when it was cold and then went off after a couple of miles. Later after I had been parked up for an hour and re-started the engine, it came on flashing again but this time it continued all the way home. I noticed that when it is flashing the temperature gauge doesn't work, the needle is at the left hand end, indicating cold (even thought the engine is obviosly hot) I also noticed that whenever the light stops flashing the temp gauge needle suddenly goes straight to indicating 80 degrees or normal temp.
I am also getting a message on the computer that says "failure indicator" and a small symbol next to it that could either be a temperature gauge or a coolant level gauge.
[FONT=arial"]I'm also getting a red explanation mark on the centre instrument when the fault is happening.![. [FONT=verdana,geneva"] [FONT=verdana,geneva"]](/forum/styles/default/pcgb/space.gif)
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When it cooled down I checked the coolant level and it was perfect. I suspect it's telling me that there is a temeprature gauge sensor failure or maybe a coolant level sensor failure?
Any ideas? So far I cant even find out how to remove the engine cover to have a look!
Many thanks,
Martin
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Today when I went for a run it started flashing immediately when it was cold and then went off after a couple of miles. Later after I had been parked up for an hour and re-started the engine, it came on flashing again but this time it continued all the way home. I noticed that when it is flashing the temperature gauge doesn't work, the needle is at the left hand end, indicating cold (even thought the engine is obviosly hot) I also noticed that whenever the light stops flashing the temp gauge needle suddenly goes straight to indicating 80 degrees or normal temp.
I am also getting a message on the computer that says "failure indicator" and a small symbol next to it that could either be a temperature gauge or a coolant level gauge.
![. [FONT=verdana,geneva"] [FONT=verdana,geneva"]](/forum/styles/default/pcgb/space.gif)
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When it cooled down I checked the coolant level and it was perfect. I suspect it's telling me that there is a temeprature gauge sensor failure or maybe a coolant level sensor failure?
Any ideas? So far I cant even find out how to remove the engine cover to have a look!
Many thanks,
Martin
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