Hello, very disturbing issue with the Rline yesterday afternoon. I pulled up in the garage at home and touched the stop/start button but the engine kept running. The dash shut down and everything else appeared normal, i could lock the car and walk away but the engine remained happly running in idle mode. I tried every possible cenerio but nothing worked. I had to touch the start/stop button to reactivage normal ignition mode so that the radiator fans would run while I worked through the problem. Very lucky this happened to me and at home in the garage and not to the wife at work. I even called the RACV but according to the service tech that came they had never seen the problem before, the two of us tried for over an hour to kill the damn thing but nothing worked.
During this i established that VW Aus haven't bothered to include any information re fuses panels and diagrams in the owners manual which infuriated me at the time. They basicly say in the book that they can't be bothered updating the book for different markets so to contact your dealer for more information, really!!! Why am I not surprised.
In desperation the RACV tech just kept pushing the start/stop button (maybe 30 or 40 times) and the engine stumbled once then when he pushed the button again it shut down. In total the engine was idling for about 2 hours.
This morning I had a mate come over and we did a scan with his VAC COM and the car threw 15 fault codes mostly around the cruise control and collision avoidance system. We cleared all the fault codes and all appears to be back to normal now. Car is just out of warranty so im not expecting any assistance from VW Aus despite the car being serviced by them during the warranty period, even though I'm qualified and capable of doing that myself.
So, the lesson from this is that I'll be visiting the local dealer and getting the fuse locations and diagrams so i can have them in the car for future reference, for the record there is very little on the web re this model and i wasn't able to find any info other then the fuse box at the A piller which doesn't have anything in it re the engine or fuel system. What i wanted to do was find the fuse for the fuel pump relay but I couldn't find it, hence the need to visit the dealer to get the locations and diagrams so i can kill the power to the fuel pump if it ever happens again. I was actually in the process of removing the front passenger seat so i could disconnect the battery when the tech got it to shut down.
During this i established that VW Aus haven't bothered to include any information re fuses panels and diagrams in the owners manual which infuriated me at the time. They basicly say in the book that they can't be bothered updating the book for different markets so to contact your dealer for more information, really!!! Why am I not surprised.
In desperation the RACV tech just kept pushing the start/stop button (maybe 30 or 40 times) and the engine stumbled once then when he pushed the button again it shut down. In total the engine was idling for about 2 hours.
This morning I had a mate come over and we did a scan with his VAC COM and the car threw 15 fault codes mostly around the cruise control and collision avoidance system. We cleared all the fault codes and all appears to be back to normal now. Car is just out of warranty so im not expecting any assistance from VW Aus despite the car being serviced by them during the warranty period, even though I'm qualified and capable of doing that myself.
So, the lesson from this is that I'll be visiting the local dealer and getting the fuse locations and diagrams so i can have them in the car for future reference, for the record there is very little on the web re this model and i wasn't able to find any info other then the fuse box at the A piller which doesn't have anything in it re the engine or fuel system. What i wanted to do was find the fuse for the fuel pump relay but I couldn't find it, hence the need to visit the dealer to get the locations and diagrams so i can kill the power to the fuel pump if it ever happens again. I was actually in the process of removing the front passenger seat so i could disconnect the battery when the tech got it to shut down.
