Vauxhall Club 2006 plate error lights?

roberthemsby

Hello, silly question but does a 2006 plate Vauxhall club have any warning lights?


I am saying this because once before driving down the motorway and a lot of smoke was coming out from the bonnet and had no warning lights on my dash saying it was overheating. The water pipe was leaking then broke. I have no temperature gauge so surly I must have a warning light for it?


Secondly, I have just had my car serviced and in for it's mot and was all fine apart from he said my break pad is very low and will need replacing within the next couple of weeks but my warning light will come on when it is ready to be replaced. I said to him I don't think I have any warning lights especially that one and he laughed at me and said of course you have. It has been well over a month and I can feel the brake pads getting very low now.


I have done the 'pedal test' and the light keeps flashing and not giving me any numbers.

Le_Kirk

Do you have the manual that was supplied with the car? Surely that would contain information about warning lights and codes!!

societys_child

A temperature gauge or warning light are dependant on a sensor detecting a rise in temperature of the water. If you have a water leak, there is no water . . .

If there's no water, the sensor can not detect that the water is starting to boil . . . (and at this point a temperature gauge could drop to cold or a warning light fail to active, even tho the engine is overheating)

A water level detector in the header tank would warn you the level is droppng, some cars don't have one, or if they do, it may be faulty.

The smoke from the bonnet was your warning!

Loss of water is more noticeable in cold weather, 'cos your heater blows cold.

does a 2006 plate Vauxhall club have any warning lights?

Sorry, no nothing about Vauxhall Clubs.

AdrianC

"Club" is a trim level, not the model. Astra? Corsa?

If the coolant is escaping because of a leak, it may well not be over temperature, so won't light a coolant temp warning light. If the coolant level drops below the level of the sensor, then the sensor will stop giving a reading of the coolant temperature anyway, since it's not in contact with it. All the warning you should need that something is wrong is the sight of steam escaping from the engine bay...

As for the brake pads - pad wear lights aren't ubiquitous, not least because they're far from infallible - they give both false-positives, lighting when the pads are fine due to moisture causing them to short out, and false-negatives, failing to light when they are low because of fractured wires or the last mechanic simply not having bothered to fit them...

When you say you can "feel the brake pads getting very low", what exactly are you "feeling"? You shouldn't notice any difference in braking right up until the pads are totally and utterly shot to the point of metal-on-metal, with very little actual braking effect but a lot of noise, and knackering the disks up as well.

If you were told the pads were very low, and only had "a couple of weeks life left", why on earth are you still driving it a month later without even checking the pads again...?

gabitzul

My mate replaced the brake pads on his 2007 Corsa and don't remember seeing a wear sensor on them? Correct me if I am wrong.

If that' the case I think your "mechanic" does not know what he is talking about.

AdrianC

I'll admit that, when I wrote my previous reply, I forgot that many modern pads have an audible wear doofy embedded in the friction material. It could well be that what the OP can hear is that.

It's a very clear and foolproof notification not to continue driving, but to get the brakes looked at.

roberthemsby

Thanks for all the replys. By the way it was an Astra 1.4 sorry I thought I put it in the top post.


The manual is a general one and not my very exact car but most of the stuff in it applies but doesn't say if my exact car should have what warning lights (I am going to order one for my exact car)


Also I have booked my car in for another local mechanic to look at (a recommended one from a work college) but I don't drive much in my car so maybe the brakes are still alright they are not as spongy if I press it all the way down.

colino

If you have already cooked a 1.4 Vauxhall, you shouldn't be servicing it, you should be selling it while it still runs.

AdrianC

roberthemsby wrote: »

The manual is a general one and not my very exact car but most of the stuff in it applies but doesn't say if my exact car should have what warning lights (I am going to order one for my exact car)

It's either a manual for a 2006 Astra H, or it isn't. They don't print different manuals for every single minor specification difference.

LandyAndy

How many warning lights come on when you switch the ignition on?


*He asks, sniffing time waster*