B4MMY
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Hi
Just thought I would let everyone who offered me advice know what happened to my ASR problem.
Initially I tried everything, restart, battery off a few minutes, then half an hour, then overnight. I looked at the fuses. Had a very decent chap look it over with his diagnostic, but it needed to go to a main dealer for the proper diagnostic stuff, that even they had to send off for. Then the alarm came on, and stayed on. And my warning lights flashed, and the alarm rang out, everytime I looked roughly in the 500's direction.
So the nice man came to see me and fixed a fuse, and I was just left with the pesky ASR. The main dealers who were nothing but gentlemen, advised me that I would be looking at £1000 to properly diagnose and fit a new 'accellerator potentiometer', a little unit about the size of a pack of cigars (5). I was getting about 120 miles a tank, and it's nearly Christmas... I was gutted.
I only had the car a few days, I was disturbed with my trust in the friend that sold it to me, and hadn't even had the chance to get the hard top off! I started thinking about selling it, and going to get myself another Japanese sports that I had just sold, that NEVER once had to go to a garage in 3 years - apart from petrol.
Anyway, the ASR light started to go off for the odd journey, and I convinced myself that if I was feather light on the pedal it would stay off everytime I drove it, but I would be slapped in the face a few hundred yards later. But soon I could even get a whole day with it never coming on.
Touch 'veneer' I have now driven the car for nearly two weeks without it troubling me again. Now I'm getting a monster 275 miles for my 80 litres of petrol, and I can press the accellerator as hard as I like! I even decided to get the hard top off last weekend, and me and my teenage son went for a little cruise, with our coats and hats on! It was great. Thank the stars... just in time for Christmas...
Just thought I would let everyone who offered me advice know what happened to my ASR problem.
Initially I tried everything, restart, battery off a few minutes, then half an hour, then overnight. I looked at the fuses. Had a very decent chap look it over with his diagnostic, but it needed to go to a main dealer for the proper diagnostic stuff, that even they had to send off for. Then the alarm came on, and stayed on. And my warning lights flashed, and the alarm rang out, everytime I looked roughly in the 500's direction.
So the nice man came to see me and fixed a fuse, and I was just left with the pesky ASR. The main dealers who were nothing but gentlemen, advised me that I would be looking at £1000 to properly diagnose and fit a new 'accellerator potentiometer', a little unit about the size of a pack of cigars (5). I was getting about 120 miles a tank, and it's nearly Christmas... I was gutted.
I only had the car a few days, I was disturbed with my trust in the friend that sold it to me, and hadn't even had the chance to get the hard top off! I started thinking about selling it, and going to get myself another Japanese sports that I had just sold, that NEVER once had to go to a garage in 3 years - apart from petrol.
Anyway, the ASR light started to go off for the odd journey, and I convinced myself that if I was feather light on the pedal it would stay off everytime I drove it, but I would be slapped in the face a few hundred yards later. But soon I could even get a whole day with it never coming on.
Touch 'veneer' I have now driven the car for nearly two weeks without it troubling me again. Now I'm getting a monster 275 miles for my 80 litres of petrol, and I can press the accellerator as hard as I like! I even decided to get the hard top off last weekend, and me and my teenage son went for a little cruise, with our coats and hats on! It was great. Thank the stars... just in time for Christmas...
