no ignition

[Acidburn]

And it would make our lives much easier if he listened/read what we are trying to tell him.

I wonder if he knows battries give off Hydrogen gas and that "testing" it for voltage by sparking across the (+) and (-) terminals, he could have blown himself up.

So far "David" is a time waster.

Very valid point.

One of my old friends worked for sainsbury's at the buntingford depot as a lorry engineer. Twice he made the mistake of dropping a spanner across the terminals on a battery and twice they blew up in his face, he was very lucky that people was around to drag him into the showers they kept for emergancy's like this and they managed to stop it being much worse.

He's a liability when it comes to anything like this, i've seen some very dangerous stuff he's done before.

I've seen quite a few spanners with marks like welding one's when people have dropped them on batterys.

[irishs2]

Even just having batteries on charge, you have to be very mindful in how you disconnect a charged battery.

[david]

Check the big ground cable were is connected at the chassis...maybe is corroded also...
Goodluck!

after waiting for what seems ages for new switch,i decided to take the whole thing apart.to make everything save by taking one of the terminal off only to find the ground cable indeed had come off the chassis
so car don't really need a new switch after all.

[audinut]

time to get a multimeter


glad you fixed it though

[david]

time to get a multimeter


glad you fixed it though

yep! i think your right m8 it would have showed up on multimeter

[Pirvu Eugen]

time to get a multimeter


glad you fixed it though

+1

[david]

yeah glad too
that really messed up my xmas though.

[UrS4boy]

after waiting for what seems ages for new switch,i decided to take the whole thing apart.to make everything save by taking one of the terminal off only to find the ground cable indeed had come off the chassis
so car don't really need a new switch after all.

Oh dear. I would have thought checking the battery cables would be one of the obvious things to do. My bad , I should have linked you to my "Potential reasons why your AAN-powered UrS won't start" post (applies equally well to the ABY and ADU). Item 2 deals with checking fuses and battery cables, etc:

http://forums.quattroworld.com/s4s6/msgs/210191.phtml

Live and learn.

Too soon old, too late smart.

[david]

i was going to order a oem switch because i was told that the one on fleabay were cheap copy and will not last past 6 month.but because of xmas holiday, i decided to get one anyway so i could atleast get the car back up and running again until i get my hands on a oem one.
i plug in the new fleabay switch and decided it was time to test it, so connected the battery and the car started turning over without even inserting the key
what a load of c***p

[macspring]

where you checked the battery?
Maibe 1 off the battery clamps is corroded inside and not providing good contact with the battery terminal....till the moment you stopped the car...the power came from the alternator...
Remove the battery terminals and clean them...just a thought..

I'm not perfect, but this was mentioned in post # 10.

A lesson for all of us to check stuff logically and methodically, when tracing faults.




Kind regards.

[benntenn67]

if going after an ignition switch, stay away from the fleebay ones. they are cheap immitations and break down in a few months. pay the extra quid and get the stealer one

sorry to state the obvious but if you have 0 power there must be a feed problem from the battery , how did you test the battery ?

Have you put a multimeter on the battery yet? a very small drop in battery voltage can have a big affect on the way things work.

Don't want to sound heavy man, but there is a lot of good information to be found on this forum & a lot of very knowledgable people, please follow the advise given before looking for a more complicated solution as it gives the impression of time wasting

Glad you got the problem sorted in the end though

[david]

Oh dear. I would have thought checking the battery cables would be one of the obvious things to do. My bad , I should have linked you to my "Potential reasons why your AAN-powered UrS won't start" post (applies equally well to the ABY and ADU). Item 2 deals with checking fuses and battery cables, etc:

http://forums.quattroworld.com/s4s6/msgs/210191.phtml

Live and learn.

Too soon old, too late smart.

judge:

[david]

So far "David" is a time waster.[/QUOTE]URS4boy

and your full of it.

to come out with that comment was uncall for,we're here to help each other and if you feel i'm a time waster then don't comment.
after all i'm a time waster

[UrS4boy]

So far "David" is a time waster. URS4boy. and your full of it. to come out with that comment was uncall for,we're here to help each other and if you feel i'm a time waster then don't comment. after all i'm a time waster

Sorry but I stand by what I said. If you can't do the most basic test (battery cables) as the first test you do before you come here for help and then you ignore the advice to do so (Post 10) and then it takes until post 48 until you get it figured out (the battery cables), then you are, in MY opinion, a time waster.

Hopefully, we all learned something that we can carry into the New Year.

I know I did.

[david]

I stand by what I said. If you can't do the most basic test (battery cables) as the first test you do before you come here for help and then you ignore the advice to do so (Post 10) and then it takes until post 48 until you get it figured out (the battery cables), then you are, in MY opinion, a time waster.

Hopefully, we all learned something that we can carry into the New Year.

I know I did.

if have nothing better to say then