Wednesday, July 30, 2014 - 07:04 pm, by: Rob Charles(Pearl_white)
Just took the Soarer out for a drive, noticed it's making an electrical crackling sound - seemingly coming from the behind the dash around the steering wheel area. Only starts crackling while driving - sounds like somebody is making popcorn under the dash. When i stop to look, the crackling also stops.
Car still hasn't caught fire or blown up
Anyone have the same issue or know what it could be?
Wednesday, December 24, 2014 - 03:06 pm, by: Rob Charles(Pearl_white)
Ok so i think i worked it out. The clicking is happening more n more lately.
Whilst sitting in the car, i noticed that if i apply pressure to the seatbelt buckle thing - some kind of relay crackles n clicks under the dash...
If i push down on the seatbelt buckle - the dash starts clicking... If i keep pressure applied to seatbelt the clicking under the steering wheel stops. If i wiggle the buckle, the clicking starts again.
Friday, December 26, 2014 - 11:17 am, by: Tom Richards(Tomr)
it points to the micro switch or lever in the seat belt buckle "sticking". try cleaning it out with an elect contact cleaner. also check/clean the plug.
Tuesday, December 30, 2014 - 07:38 pm, by: Rob Charles(Pearl_white)
Back with update!
Turns out the culprit is a wire which was snipped before i picked up the soarer.
There are 2 wires coming from seatbelt buckle, they must have been touching each other or what not, causing the dash to crackle. Never seen a seatbelt light on the dash come up though.
I took a spin before - made sure the wires were separate - and everythings fine so far.
Will have to tape them up. Any reason that wire is there aside from making the dash say your seatbelt was not fastened?
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