Trip Computer :(

[angrydave]

I there. I've just bought a 406 1.9td LXS and it has a trip computer in but atm its only Displaying 3 dashs flashing on the temp guage bit. Its got the wiper stalk with the button on for the computer but it just doesnt change anything. How can i get it to register the infomation.

Thanks very much.
David

[mjb]

Sorry to say if it's a D8 it sounds like a failed attempt at a retro-fit. I don't think the ECUs fitted to the diesel models can send the necessary (VAN-bus encoded) fuel consumption data to the trip computer.

I think 3 dashes flashing means it's trying to display the external temperature without a sensor fitted and connected up.

[angrydave]

oh that sucks then . Thanks anyway. Guess ill try to find the coin holder instead. More use to me now

[mjb]

The temperature sensor can be retro-fitted without too much difficulty - there's a few ppl on here that have done it

[angrydave]

cant really be botherd now tbh . seen as it doesnt work full stop ill just leave it. Thanks anyway

[mark21TD]

So does that mean the unit on my 97 GLX 2.1 TD wont work then, I thought I was just being thick as it has the temp reading but wont change when i push the stalk, I thought it was funny that the stalk did'nt have the little arrows on it

[steve_earwig]

Mine doesn't do anything either

[angrydave]

right well ive spoken to people with the same car as me.. (model etc) and theirs is working fine. Would it be best for me to take it to the dealers and say wtf... is going on here mate... sort it ????. . guy i bought it off had it working but since then i sorta left the battery drain and now its just not registering anything .

Thanks Dave

[mjb]

Lots of people (myself included at one point ) think their wiper stalk has a button on it when it actually doesn't. If it has a button, it'll go all the way in like the horn one does. Stalks without a button have a plastic lookalike in its place which does actually move about a bit giving the impression it might be a button...

Can't remember if my stalk-with-a-button has arrows on it or not, don't think it does

[teamster1975]

Can't remember if my stalk-with-a-button has arrows on it or not, don't think it does

Mine does, in the handbook it shows the trip button with the arrows too.
The fact I haven't connected it up yet on the tubby is by the by!

[mjb]

haha you know, i think i preferred the microswitch I blu-tacked to the dash on my tubby to the stalk button, it was much easier to press

[Doggy]

haha you know, i think i preferred the microswitch I blu-tacked to the dash on my tubby to the stalk button, it was much easier to press

I can well believe it - I keep getting the wrong one Wound up having a senior moment or two over xmas cos I'd turned on the auto lights, couldn't turn them off in the garage and diagnosed a dodgy BSI, before the truth dawned on me.