Vectra C - 2002 - Electrics Cutting Out

[Nicko_12345]

Hi,

A friend of mine has a problem with his 1.8 2002 02 reg vectra, when he gets in the car in the morning to drive to work for example he will get so far then the electrics will totally trip out, the radio will stop working, wipers stop working, the indicators wont work, the headlights sometimes come on also the brake lights to, obviously this aint the safest thing to happen. On the dash board he does not get a ecu light that comes on or has any error codes stored in the ecu, he does get abs light and the battery light coming on. To get the electrics back he has to stop the car and turn the ignition off. After he has done this the car is fine for a while. We have checked the battery connectors and they seem fine and the battery has the green light on so we think that means the battery is still good??

Anyone got any advise or ideas?

Thanks



Nick

[Trevelyan]

Could it be this? Sounds like a problem I thought I had on my car but it turned out to be something else in my case. The problem below won't cause any error codes to be installed. This only applies to the very early Vectras - the harness was modified for 53 plate onwards.

Symptoms: Failure of instruments while driving, swinging of instruments, vehicle will not start, ABS warning lamp lights on, problems while storing trouble codes of ABS wheel speed sensor.

Cause: Poor contact of wiring harness connector ABS control unit.

[VxDuncan]

There was also a recall on the alternator I believe (or at least a swap of affected parts during service), which would have very similar issues.