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My wife had a Toyota at one point which developed an interesting fault - all of the internal electrics would cut out at random times. Turns out the cause was a
by arethuza 1y ago
My wife had a Toyota at one point which developed an interesting fault - all of the internal electrics would cut out at random times.
Turns out the cause was a leaking sunroof!
Water got in through the sunroof and the genius design had some kind of electric junction box (or fuses or something) at the lowest point of the passengers footwell. So water got in, flowed to where all the electrics were and things stopped working.
Fortunately it doesn't rain that often here in Scotland so it wasn't a big problem ;-)
- MisterTea 1y agoThat happened to a friends Benz when he bought it second hand. Water had leaked in the drivers window, maybe it was left open, and shorted the switch cluster on the drivers door. That took out the entire CAN network and the car had no lights save for brake lights, no HVAC and no entertainment system. Fixed it himself for like two hundred bucks for a new switch cluster.
- arethuza 1y agoI had a similar problem with the VW Passat I had at the time - the drain hole from the battery compartment got blocked and when it rained it overflowed into the interior of the car - I was wondering for ages why there was this sloshing noise each time I went round a corner - the back of the car had about 1cm of water in it! Had to get the dealer to remove all the seats and carpets and dry thing out.