Auto Lockout on Mk3

**Golf Loon** · 20-09-2006, 08:20 PM

Ok guys a hard one for you.

I just converted a VR6 from auto to manual and I cant get it to start.

I can hotwire the starter and it will start

There are 6 wires going to the auto selector and if I plug the selector into the loom and put it in park, car wont start.

If I howire the relay, it will start, but only all the time, or on the first ignition click, not the second.

I reckon either the auto lockout recieves a signal back from the auto gearbox, which it is not getting, or there are a few wires that have to be connected together at the auto selector box.

I am using the auto loom still, with just the conectors at the auto made redundant. I have the manual front loom, but I dont want to take the dash out for what is a simple circuit somewhere.

Other than that, the car is great, it drove forward and back a few feet which I call a victory.

Must sort the wiring issue, any ideas gratefully accepted.

**h100vw** · 20-09-2006, 10:08 PM

Matt, have you got wiring diagrams? I'd be surprised if the auto loom couldn't be removed altogether back to the fusebox..

Gavin

**joshyd-mk2gti** · 20-09-2006, 10:42 PM

heres what i found. gota jump these wires.

http://forums.vwvortex.com/zerothread?id=2717323

**Golf Loon** · 21-09-2006, 07:42 AM

Thanks guys I`m gonna try that now.

Yeah I could remove the whole loom Gav, but its a dash out job and I dont really want to.

**Golf Loon** · 22-09-2006, 07:10 AM

Thanks Josh, that was a good link.

None of those suggestions worked, in the end I simply jumpered a wire from the ignition to the relay and car starts sweet as.

It moved forwards and when I went to reverse, the plastic link on the gearbox snapped, so now I need one of them. Typical.

Testdrive next week.