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Tach Didn't Work After Car Wash.

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Old 12-31-2004, 07:17 PM
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Today I took my car in for a car wash at one of mobils touchless car washes to get some of the underbody salt off.



My car is an s4 NA with a T2 hood. Well during the car wash my car just dies, and it took me forever to get it started again. I got it started before the wash was done. But I realized my tach stopped working. So I got it into my garage, hand wiped my car dry, and looked under the hood. I did the good old mechanics tap on everything, looked in my car and the tach started to work again. I was just curious as to wat controls the tach so that I know what to look at, if this happens again.



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was the engine check light on? after i had my tranny rebuilt they stripped out one of the tranny bolts and the car would ground out, trip an engine code, and the trailing coil would stop working.
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Actually no engine check light came out, but now that u mention the trailing coil. I do remember my car missing really bad when i tried to rev it up at first, before it died. Then it really wouldn't start for about 3 minutes.
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Trailing coil is what outputs to the tach
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