Ok guys need some help with this as my vw knowledge is getting rusty over all these years.
Right now I have a flickering dash light in my 03 vintage, it is the right light on the tach. According the search that I did on this site the right light is the electrical and the left is the oil light.
The light has been going off and on at random staying on for ~2-4 seconds sometimes at the most it lights up every 2 minutes or so. On longer roads where the rpm's stay the same for a long period of time the light never comes on, I took a 50 minute drive to test (like I had to justify that) and it looks like what I am comming off power and when I am turning or going over bumps I get the light.
So I got home and disconnected the negative wire to the alternator and turned the key to the on postion and get the left light out. Which in my mind says the electrical system is hooked to the left light which is counter what I have been told several times.
Right now I think that the right light is hooked up to the oil pressure sender and that I am getting low pressure light. or the like, so is there any way to test this other then waiting until a problem arises. I seem to recall when I built a 1600 that something similiar had happened because the clearences had been a little tight in the lower miles of the motor. Currently I have ~650 miles or so on this engine. Other options is that there is a loose connection somewhere that is hiting a power line somehow or another which is unlikely. I check in the gauge for a loos connection but no such luck
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