[AustinTrkJunkie]

So I took the car to a touchless carwash today and did the supreme - read extra long - wash. Then parked at a bank of vacuums to clean out the interior after COTA.

When I started the car back up and put it in reverse, the entire climate system went dead, the backup camera started flashing red squares and beeping off the wall like I had backed into something though nothing was behind me.
So I kept backing out and drove off towards my house when the climate system came back on about a block later.

But halfway home it cut out again, no power/AC/fan buttons would work and the display was blank like it was off, though the Nav, Sat radio and other electronics were working.

Then hitting the little lip/bump there is from the driveway to our garage made the climate system come back on...ugh!

Car has just 3100 miles on it and I don't have time this week to take it in this week - having arthroscopic surgery on my knee tomorrow from a hoops injury last month - but wanted to see if anyone has had a weird glitch like this happen. Could the high pressure wash have caused something to short/get wet?

[bcornwellatl]

Haven't experienced it - but is it possible? sure. If you open your hood, and look to the upper left side (back left) - there is a plastic cover there. If you take that off, there is a sealed box that contains the ECU and fuses. It's "possible" that could have been compromised - not likely, but possible.

Or if you look to the right (upper right) there is a plastic housing there. If you take that off, you might see some fuses there? don't remember - but it's possible something caused the issue. from the sound of what your saying - could be a fuse - or a short - but a fuse would be my first guess...

that's all I've got... really odd issue... sorry - and hope surgery goes well...

Originally Posted by AustinTrkJunkie

So I took the car to a touchless carwash today and did the supreme - read extra long - wash. Then parked at a bank of vacuums to clean out the interior after COTA.

When I started the car back up and put it in reverse, the entire climate system went dead, the backup camera started flashing red squares and beeping off the wall like I had backed into something though nothing was behind me.
So I kept backing out and drove off towards my house when the climate system came back on about a block later.

But halfway home it cut out again, no power/AC/fan buttons would work and the display was blank like it was off, though the Nav, Sat radio and other electronics were working.

Then hitting the little lip/bump there is from the driveway to our garage made the climate system come back on...ugh!

Car has just 3100 miles on it and I don't have time this week to take it in this week - having arthroscopic surgery on my knee tomorrow from a hoops injury last month - but wanted to see if anyone has had a weird glitch like this happen. Could the high pressure wash have caused something to short/get wet?

[AustinTrkJunkie]

Originally Posted by bcornwellatl

Haven't experienced it - but is it possible? sure. If you open your hood, and look to the upper left side (back left) - there is a plastic cover there. If you take that off, there is a sealed box that contains the ECU and fuses. It's "possible" that could have been compromised - not likely, but possible.

Or if you look to the right (upper right) there is a plastic housing there. If you take that off, you might see some fuses there? don't remember - but it's possible something caused the issue. from the sound of what your saying - could be a fuse - or a short - but a fuse would be my first guess...

that's all I've got... really odd issue... sorry - and hope surgery goes well...

Thanks, I'll take a peek when I'm back on my feet, scope went well - and they didn't have to do a microfracture - so will be back on my feet next week. Still need to swap back to street pads so will add this to my agenda of todo's