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It makes no difference if I depress the clutch. The reason I went through all the hassle to get the switch out and test is was because I noticed that in live data and running in either scenario there was no change to depressing it or not. Doesn't have stop start. I once tried reading the car as a Fiat Panda diesel and there in live data on engine status it has readings of "parking" "starting" and "running". In the faulty scenario it never changed from parking but on 2nd start/ignition cycle it changed through the 3. I took that to mean that when its faulty its because the car doesn't realise it been started though with a Panda obviously not being a Ka or even 500 I'm not sure if I should put any weight on that finding,
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Not sure what you mean or why hook up to socket ? Does always charge properly, bulb is on the CAN system rather than directly wired.Electric steering does take a good whack out of the battery , so makes sense it waits for it to "think" the engine is
running before turning it on.
(May need to safely hook up a cheap multimeter to
aux power socket (if you have one!) .
Check if it always charges .
May be an ECU decision for energy saving !
(Light may also be ECU controlled
-rather than traditional bulb feeds alternator-
(if have any detail of alternator wiring ? )
(Monitored a lazy alternator on an old Banger)
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