Hi all, here's a new one. 

My astra g auto was running fine coming home from getting fuel earlier. It stalled on me at a couple of junctions and started straight away.  Then I noticed all my clocks were no longer working. Temp gauge sits there twitching.

Any ideas as to cause and a fix would be highly appreciated. 

Edited February 14Feb 14 by AndyR

If the ABS light is also on then the passenger side sensor is capput. This requires a new hub unit as sensor is not available separately. Just had similar problems (2003 1.6l auto) & a replacement hub magically cured it! Hub £45 off ebay whith 2 year guarantee (don't be tempted by cheaper ones).

Test the hub with a multi-meter: should read 1 to 1.5 ohms across terminals stationary,  flicking up to higher amount when rotated as sensor passes peaks on internal toothed wheel.

Good luck!

Hi Mick, I did wonder about the hub on left front, as I have a feeling bearing is on its way out. Its the only wheel with a wire to it, as my car doesn't have abs fitted. I have had intermittent problems with the speedo since I first bought car, it would play catch up every so often. I will check with a multi meter, but I think it will be a new hub though. 

Thanks for your help. 

Well i replaced the hub assembly, and yes i got all my gauges back. Went to try to check speedo works, and found battery didn't have enough to start the car. so after a good charge, i put battery back. Car started first pull, but i have no gauges, and no speedo and rev counter again. 

Any ideas would be appreciated thanks.

Finally got this sorted. Turns out that the speedo cluster can work loose on the plug to the main loom. I removed the cluster today, and gave the connections a clean. After refitting back in to the dash, I now have all clocks and gauges back working again. 

I can only wish I'd gone and seen my local garage earlier. Car wouldn't have been stood about so long. 

Booking m.o.t. tomorrow, so should be back on the road soon.  

Great news that you've found the issue Andy - good luck with the MOT

Cheers, I am hoping for good news when it goes in. With all that's been done over the last few months I can't see there being any issues.

Hello everyone. Well my astra passed mot today. Only problem was that when the garage backed it out at the end of the test. The speedo cluster has stopped working again.  So later I'm going to pull it apart again to see what's occurring.  

Oh dear (about the speedo) but great news about the MOT test 🙂

 

Finally managed to get my dash working again. 

I found a reset method which has cured the problem.  

It's called disconnection of the battery for 15 minutes.  

I decided to remove the after market wiring for the electric fan, and whilst doing this I needed to disconnect the live terminal. And once I had done, and all was back together. The dash was working again, and has been ever since. 

And I am no longer getting a static shock every time I get out of the car.

Which is a win win in my book. 

 

great news and good diagnosis of the real fault - always usually something simple but difficult to find