Dashboard Warning light flickers going down hill

[jonk]

The red dashboard warning light on my S3 flickers and comes on when I'm accelerating down hill. I initially thought this might be to do with a low water in the rad.. but this seems fine.

Anyone out there had a similar experience, or knows what problems the red light is s'pose to warn of?!

[sotonS2]

jonk said:

The red dashboard warning light on my S3 flickers and comes on when I'm accelerating down hill. I initially thought this might be to do with a low water in the rad.. but this seems fine. Anyone out there had a similar experience, or knows what problems the red light is s'pose to warn of?!

Smacks of usual TVR dodgy connection. Check the Bible and see where the signal wire to the red light comes from. With this known, just follow the wire back to the source sensor and check all connections in this path.

[andyf007]

Which red light?

Could it be the brake fluid reservoir level.

Andy

[RichardR]

andyf007 said:

Which red light? Could it be the brake fluid reservoir level. Andy

If it's the brake fluid light, there're two possible causes:

1) On mine, one of the terminals on the resevoir lid corroded so that the spade connector came loose and would touch against the other one occasionally, causing the light to come on.

2) It could be warning you that your brake fluid's low!

[jonk]

I'd better check the brake fluid then ;-)

Thanks guys