Dashboard lights

[aldos]

Hi All,

I\'m trying to diagnose a peculiar issue on my new FD3.

I picked it up today (it\'s sweet) and drove it home with no issues, then when i went out tonight things started behaving a bit odd.

I have noticed that there are electrical issues, sometimes the passenger light doesn\'t flip up, speedo is intermittent, oil guage is intermittent, passenger electric window switch intermittent...

i am wondering if these could be all tied together and are causing the engine stall that i got tonight about 3 times.

i was quite happily crusing along in 5th gear about 60 and then all of a sudden, the car dies and it \'feels\' like the fuel pump stops, or some other sort of electrical issue happens.

additionally, which dashboard lights come on at start, as i see no engine management light which comes on, although it is an aftermarket ECU - could this be why?

Engine was rebuilt 4000 miles ago.

[philiwily]

It could be a bad earth at the front but the faults you listed are quite common in there own right, do they all happen at the same time?

[aldos]

Yes, like today when i took her out for a wee test, the indicator was fine, the headlights were behaving, the speedo was fine too, and there was no sudden cut out!

[aldos]

Today she cut out when i was just driving round a roundabout!  No other electrical problems accompanied the cut out this time.

tried to start her again and the engine just turned, plenty petrolly smoke coming out the exhaust, after letting it sit for two minutes, she started fine!

where are all the main earth cables?