Car conked out

[jubjub]

New avant?

[newsh]

New avant?

Yep

[jubjub]

Yep

How did that come about then?
I spy Porka brakes up front...

Nicely modded?

[newsh]

It's really nice

[UrS4boy]

Tank must be empty but showing nearly 1/2 full so sender sticking. Car runs fine now, doh! [emoji849]

It might just be a ground/earth issue:

http://forums.quattroworld.com/s4s6/msgs/332473.phtml

[Audi J]

what a relief, I think we are so involved with these older cars we start to expect the worst and miss the obvious. Same thing happened to me

[newsh]

Dave this is genius, I'm sure I noticed during a test session yesterday that with the ignition on the gauge reads zero until the engine is started! The bord comp even beeped and showed a fuel pump signal at one point. I reckon you've cracked it!

[andy10v]

That was a short period without an S2 avant!

Nice to have a simple fix for once.

Going to spill the beans on the new car?

[newsh]

Beans will be spilt soon [emoji6]

[AndyP]

It's really nice

Even nicer when you put fuel in it!

Your old one is up near me now, might have to pop over and have a look when it's out the paint shop

[Christophski]

Umm what happened? I thought you had a blue one that your boy crashed and then I thought you had a purple one? What happened to that? I havnt been around much over the last 7 months....

[newsh]

Umm what happened? I thought you had a blue one that your boy crashed and then I thought you had a purple one? What happened to that? I havnt been around much over the last 7 months....

Keep up! Purple one sold to imp998 on here, bought this one off Astro, just got it on the road a couple of days ago.
How is your car bud?

Anyway, I just checked the pump voltage again and its 13v and 0 volts to ground

Dave
I Had a look for that ground tag but the S2 Avant looks different to that pic, there's a gound tag above the light cluster with 2 brown wires going to it but it looks clean and tight.

[UrS4boy]

Dave I Had a look for that ground tag but the S2 Avant looks different to that pic, there's a ground tag above the light cluster with 2 brown wires going to it but it looks clean and tight.

Probably okay but I would remove the nut and clean the circle/ring terminals and re-install with sufficient but not too much torque on the nut.

Just to be sure that is not the issue.

Otherwise, you are looking at removing the sender and cleaning the segmented resister plate with a pencil eraser and then re-installing, being careful to nut get the float hung up on the fuel pump hoses.

[newsh]

Ok, cleaned and re-tightened

It's definitely the correct earth point because when I unbolted it the pump didn't run and I got a low fuel warning. (and a broken bulb warning and the tail lights came on and a bunch of other stuff!)

I'll see how it goes as the fuel level drops.

[Christophski]

Keep up! Purple one sold to imp998 on here, bought this one off Astro, just got it on the road a couple of days ago.
How is your car bud?

Ahh right.... My bad lol. Surprised you sold it but glad you have another one.

Mine is doing ok but is having its problems but im hoping to get some of them sorted asap, thanks for asking.