Clicking under dash?

1. devilsadvocate Saxperience Post Whore Joined: Dec 2006 Maidstone Posts: 8210 Golf TDI

   #1 4th May 2011, 21:45

   Hello
   
   I have literally just put my rocker covers back on and sealed them
   I went to take the car for a test drive and it started clicking from under the dash
   
   I traced it to one of the relays in the fuse box
   It's a grey relay if this helps
   There are 6 relays, three at the top and three at the bottom
   It's the bottom right relay if you are looking directly at them
   
   Anyone know what this does?
   
   Do I just replace the relay?
   
   Everything seems to be working in the car and it's never done it before
   
   Cheers
   
   laurie
2. nikrh1990 Regular Poster Joined: Mar 2009 huddersfield Posts: 404 SAXO VTaahhrr posi blue

   #2 4th May 2011, 21:47

   if it sounds like an indicator type click, but more random then its the indicator stalk thats fucked, sending a bad signal to the relay i think. mine has done it intermitantly for a year. doesnt affect anything just an anoying noise every now and again.
3. dave_1 Saxperience Forum Bum Joined: Jan 2010 llwyngwril Posts: 2698 saxo vts, Landrover td5, 16 tonne skyline

   #3 4th May 2011, 21:55

   I had the same clicking noise but i took mine to the garage where they tried to charged me £10 to tell me it was a relay (I told them it was a relay to start with) and that i could change it but it might still do it
4. devilsadvocate Saxperience Post Whore Joined: Dec 2006 Maidstone Posts: 8210 Golf TDI

   #4 4th May 2011, 21:59

   It does sound like the indicators are on constantly, clicks randomly
   
   Only started doing it today, so glad im selling this thing lol
   
   Do I need a new stalk or a new relay?
5. nikrh1990 Regular Poster Joined: Mar 2009 huddersfield Posts: 404 SAXO VTaahhrr posi blue

   #5 4th May 2011, 22:02

   stalk mate, but ther cheap enough, probly get one from a scrappy for a 5er?
6. devilsadvocate Saxperience Post Whore Joined: Dec 2006 Maidstone Posts: 8210 Golf TDI

   #6 4th May 2011, 22:03

   Quote:

   Originally Posted by nikrh1990 stalk mate, but ther cheap enough, probly get one from a scrappy for a 5er?

   Is it worth removing the relay, cleaning and putting back?
   
   If not, will go to scrappie on Saurday
   
   Cheers
7. nikrh1990 Regular Poster Joined: Mar 2009 huddersfield Posts: 404 SAXO VTaahhrr posi blue

   #7 4th May 2011, 22:03

   on mine if it starts doing the clicking,, i can move the indicator stalk ever so gently like less than millimeter up or down and it stops. then let go and it restarts. its a bad conection inside i believe. common fault.
8. nikrh1990 Regular Poster Joined: Mar 2009 huddersfield Posts: 404 SAXO VTaahhrr posi blue

   #8 4th May 2011, 22:03

   no its not the realay, its the indictor switch.
9. devilsadvocate Saxperience Post Whore Joined: Dec 2006 Maidstone Posts: 8210 Golf TDI

   #9 4th May 2011, 22:06

   Ahh I see, I will get another one
   
   Take it they are easy to swap?
10. nikrh1990 Regular Poster Joined: Mar 2009 huddersfield Posts: 404 SAXO VTaahhrr posi blue

    #10 4th May 2011, 22:16

    not done one on the sax, i just live with it on mine, its character, but i assume at the worst case, itl be steering cowel top and bottom, maybe stering wheel. couple of wires and a few small bolts. not a big or hard job normaly.
    
    thers torx bolts i believe holding the cowels together from the underside, some bolts from the back of the wheel holding the airbag on, a squib to disconect from the back of the airbag once the airbag is actualy loose, probly a 24 or 27mm nut holding the wheel on, then itl be more torx's holding the stalk in place.
11. user_40784 Saxperience Forum Bum Joined: Jan 2010 London Posts: 2768

    #11 5th May 2011, 16:51

    Steering wheel has to come off, theres a guide here:
    http://www.saxperience.com/forum/sho...38#post2466438