Hello! Can anyone shed light on this? My ZX Aura is a K-reg. Three weeks ago, I was buzzing along the M3, when my radio died, my temp and fuel gauges went to zero, as did my rev counter, and the indicators wouldn't work. The lights remained on, the heater remained on, and the car ran as normal. On that occasion, it just so happened that my alternator had given up the ghost, and I've since had a new one fitted. However, this morning, the same symptoms arose - radio died, gauges died etc. Having had to slow right down in traffic, I accelerated away, and hey presto! Everything bounced back to life, and the car was fine. Clearly, these things were not caused by the knackered alternator. My battery has been tested and is fine. A regular problem is my radio - in the first ten minutes of any journey, every time I press the brake pedal or use an indicator, the radio goes off for a second and then comes back on again. This stops happening as the journey progresses. Spookily, today, the radio died at exactly the same point on the M3 as it had done three weeks previously! The car has an immobiliser, not fitted at manufacture, and has a disconnected alarm. Generally, she runs beautifully, but this electrical thing is getting to me. On occasion, I have noted that the heater does not get warm - for instance, in the really cold frosty weather, I'll start her up ten minutes before I want to leave, so that the heater can melt the ice and clear the windscreen. Sometimes, the blowers are still chucking out cold air when I go to leave, until I move off, and then the warmth suddenly kicks in. Most bizarre.
