bristolbaron 11 Posted April 25, 2006 I'm putting bets on some sort of cruise control setting thingy... Im putting bets on Yandards having far far too much time on his hands atm, when he should be packing! :lol: Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
coolrado 0 Posted April 25, 2006 Well I have taken a spare set of clocks apart and consulted the blue books of much info with no joy. The connection is not listed in the wiring diagrams that I can see and I am confident I know where the oil buzzer is on the PCB. I am going to put some dosh on it being a factory test connection or for an obscure accessory like cruise control. Anyway piccies: the part you have marked as the buzzer is not a buzzer, its a variable capacitor, i am pretty sure the buzzer is not in the cluster. i have also seen cars with cruise control fitted and there was no connection to that contact, i am still pretty sure its some kind of diagnostic/mileage reading port. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Supercharged 2 Posted April 25, 2006 I reckon they are just test points for diagnostics... Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Yandards 0 Posted April 25, 2006 Im putting bets on Yandards having far far too much time on his hands atm, when he should be packing! :lol: Thats what removal firms are for.. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
ardandy 0 Posted April 26, 2006 Can someone go to a dealer and ask? Although they prob know less than us regarding it! Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Andi 2,147,483,647 Posted April 26, 2006 Can someone go to a dealer and ask? Although they prob know less than us regarding it! Haha! They wonder what the turbo lag is like on the G60! Dealers know squat! Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
jonny-5 0 Posted April 26, 2006 Well i'd never thought i'd post something that know one knew the answer to (yet!) i'm going to go and ask the stealers in a minute - don't know if it's really worth it lol Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Guest Posted April 26, 2006 lol, gl with the Stealer mate. as said above, they know very little about everything. ps, expect a bill when they do answer the question (incorrectly) ;) Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Walesy 0 Posted April 26, 2006 Come on then Henny, put us out of our misery........ Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Henny 0 Posted April 26, 2006 according to a mate of mine it was intended for reading information from the clocks via a computer, i have taken the clocks apart a few times and there is not a buzzer inside the actual cluster, the contacts behind the blanking plug just go to the chip on the back of the clocks. Right and wrong all in one post.... ;) Right that it was intended by VDO for reading info, but was never implemented... Wrong in that the oil warning buzzer IS on the circuit board for the clocks... coolrado's right that the hi-lighted bit is a variable capacitor, IIRC the buzzer is on the circuit board for the Revcounter... (feck knows why though! :lol: ) Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
chrishill 0 Posted April 26, 2006 so it does nowt? ffs! Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
veeDuB_Rado 0 Posted April 26, 2006 Great! :x Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
gsbellew 0 Posted April 26, 2006 Why is it on some clocks and not all of them? I had it on my 91 G60, my friends 92 G60 does not have it! Always bugged me when I had the car, never got round to asking what it was :lol: Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
dinkus 10 Posted April 26, 2006 I'd guess VDO put it there on the early gauges, but cos it never got used when they came to updating the gauge cluster, they ditched it. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
.Rich. 0 Posted April 26, 2006 what a let down. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
steve_16v 0 Posted April 26, 2006 Good to know what it does at last .... nothing :roll: IIRC the buzzer is on the circuit board for the Revcounter... (feck knows why though! :lol: ) Doesn't the buzzer come on when you go above 2K revs when the oil pressure is too low? Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Henny 0 Posted April 26, 2006 steve_16v, yup... Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
veeDuB_Rado 0 Posted April 26, 2006 Mine goes BZZZZZZZZZZZ when turning :? Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
chrishill 0 Posted April 26, 2006 top your oil up then! ;) Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
steve_16v 0 Posted April 26, 2006 steve_16v, yup... that's why it's on the rev counter circuit board then, if it was on the other circuits then the rpm data would have to be sent to another board as well, not a problem with today's technology but quite a lot of unecessary data flow on 17+ year old hardware. Putting it on the rev counter board was probably the easiest way of implementing it at the time. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Henny 0 Posted April 26, 2006 steve_16v, good point... :) Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Guest Posted April 26, 2006 Hooray for Henny :D Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
colinstubbs 0 Posted April 26, 2006 It does nothing? At least that's something some of us has got that'll NEVER go wrong!!! :lol: Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
jonny-5 0 Posted April 26, 2006 thanks everyone, i can sleep easy tonight Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
