Electronics Blackout while driving...

[tpphan]

Driving to work this morning, the dashboard, audio unit, electronics powered off for a second or two then returned to normal.

All the gauges (speedo, tacho, fuel, temp) went off but engine remained normal as far as i can tell.

Any ideas?

[aaronng]

So the speedo and tacho are not moving at all? Or is it just the lighting of the needles that have gone off? Check your instrument cluster fuse.

[tpphan]

So the speedo and tacho are not moving at all? Or is it just the lighting of the needles that have gone off? Check your instrument cluster fuse.

All went off including lights. The needles started to go to there off position. lol. Scary! Then a second later it all came alive again.

[Crapdaz]

All went off including lights. The needles started to go to there off position. lol. Scary! Then a second later it all came alive again.

use multimeter and check your wiring around your tachos/gauges for shortcircuits.

[tpphan]

use multimeter and check your wiring around your tachos/gauges for shortcircuits.

It wasn't just the gauges though, the cig lighter went off as well, was charging my phone at the time. Isn’t the dash cluster and the accessories on different fuses? So a short on the cluster shouldn’t affect the cig/audio, etc? Could be wrong… lol

[Crapdaz]

It wasn't just the gauges though, the cig lighter went off as well, was charging my phone at the time. Isn’t the dash cluster and the accessories on different fuses? So a short on the cluster shouldn’t affect the cig/audio, etc? Could be wrong… lol

checked your earthing ?

[tpphan]

checked your earthing ?

Yeah, earthing is all good. Seems very strange. haha

[aaronng]

It wasn't just the gauges though, the cig lighter went off as well, was charging my phone at the time. Isn’t the dash cluster and the accessories on different fuses? So a short on the cluster shouldn’t affect the cig/audio, etc? Could be wrong… lol

Check the fuses, because if you had a surge, some fuses might be blown, while others are ok.

[Crapdaz]

What battery are you running tpphan?

[D R U]

He's got an optima yellow top.

This happened to me when i was trialling my new battery terminals, i forgot for tighten the original terminals back on *smacks self in the head*

So when the terminal finally came off, all my electrics turned turned off but the car was still running.

When the terminal touched the the battery again electronics came back on, this happened 3 times on the way home, i knew what it was straight away.

But i still had to make it home to secure the terminal cause all my tools were at home.

Once secured everything was back to normal, checked all fuses, nothing blown.

[tpphan]

If the fuses were blown, shouldn't everything remain off?

[Crapdaz]

If the fuses were blown, shouldn't everything remain off?

not all fuses would blow though, due to tolerance.