What I Did To My Saab Today.

[welshwizard]

I do have the Poltergeist playing silly tricks on my NG again today....got to work parked up and tried to lock the car, feeble horn parped when I used my remote...tried a few times and I got the horn blowing.  Went round the car and boot was shut and none of the doors were ajar.  Tried the remote again 'beep!'

Gave up. 

Lunchtime - went to the car, it was locked and started the ignition 'boot lid open'     Had no reason to open the boot this morning, no warnings on my way into work...tried it and it felt and looked shut...   gave the lid a tug and it opened....

Used fob again, no horn...

I was going to take the Golf into work this morning, as Saab was low on fuel.  But Openreach are working on our round, thus blocking Madge (the Golf, so called because I had a Dame Edna).  Confidence gained by hopefully fixing the water issue without breaking any trim gives me the confidence to try to fix the horn on the NG before the MOT.

[carrera]

There does seem to be a programming logic that opens the boot when the battery voltage drops below a certain level. I'm not saying that's what happening, but it's an interesting aside to the NG's foibles

[welshwizard]

I had that when my old battery was failing and the BCM taken over by the devil.  Try driving across Dartmoor in awful weather in the dark during Covid times (evicted from hotel) with nothing working from the steering wheel or stalks....

[welshwizard]

Confidence gained by hopefully fixing the water issue without breaking any trim gives me the confidence to try to fix the horn on the NG before the MOT.

The bootlid fix on the Golf is holding after the biblical rain we've had for the past few days.  However, a 'shakedown' journey from Richmond to Bracknell tells the truth I've not fixed the issue, there was a bit of water collecting in the bootwell when I arrived at work.  Because I had not refitted the carpet etc I could see where the water was coming from, which means bumper off in the spring/summer.  The Golf has a weakness behind the bumper and below the lights, it's where the external vents are and they become loose over time, and water collects in a recess.  There is a gromit that, when you can access it, allows you to drain the water - a temporary fix - but I have just ordered a syringe set from Amazon which allows me just to take some trim from the side of the boot and access the recess through there and suck the water up.  Summer time I will fix the vents properly.