Tonight something really bizarre happened with my Sportage. When I pulled up I discovered it would not lock with the remote key fob.
I then found that whilst I could lock the car manually, the central locking had stopped working via the remote fob or even with the key.
So I got back in the car and noticed that the clock was dead, even with the ignition switched on.
The car started and ran normally, but when I switched it off the odometer reading faded away slowly and the fuel gauge, temperature gauge and rev-counter stayed where they were and didn't return to zero.
On turning back on the ignition, the dials clicked and then returned to zero. Also, the air-con was losing it's setting and defaulting back to 23.5 degrees on turning the ignition off and on.
On top of all of this, the power windows that usually work when the ignition is switched off for a minute or so stopped working this way and only worked when the ignition was on.
Given the nature of all these sudden and unexpected failures I decided a first line of attack was to make sure there were no blown fuses.
Low and behold, I found 1 blown fuse. A 10amp fuse located behind the panel on the right of the steering wheel - visible when the driver door is opened. I replaced the fuse and viola! Everything returned to working normally!
I was convinced I was looking at weeks of frustrations with the dealer unable to find the cause of these bizarre problems so I was naturally delighted to find it myself the same day.
Just thought I'd share it with the forum in case anyone else hits this totally bewildering set of symptoms caused by one duff fuse.
Cheers
I then found that whilst I could lock the car manually, the central locking had stopped working via the remote fob or even with the key.
So I got back in the car and noticed that the clock was dead, even with the ignition switched on.
The car started and ran normally, but when I switched it off the odometer reading faded away slowly and the fuel gauge, temperature gauge and rev-counter stayed where they were and didn't return to zero.
On turning back on the ignition, the dials clicked and then returned to zero. Also, the air-con was losing it's setting and defaulting back to 23.5 degrees on turning the ignition off and on.
On top of all of this, the power windows that usually work when the ignition is switched off for a minute or so stopped working this way and only worked when the ignition was on.
Given the nature of all these sudden and unexpected failures I decided a first line of attack was to make sure there were no blown fuses.
Low and behold, I found 1 blown fuse. A 10amp fuse located behind the panel on the right of the steering wheel - visible when the driver door is opened. I replaced the fuse and viola! Everything returned to working normally!
I was convinced I was looking at weeks of frustrations with the dealer unable to find the cause of these bizarre problems so I was naturally delighted to find it myself the same day.
Just thought I'd share it with the forum in case anyone else hits this totally bewildering set of symptoms caused by one duff fuse.
Cheers
