What's this DR30 warning light??

[boj01]

Light has come up on my dash this morning. RH side of cluster, bottom row, on the very left. It looks like a house with long windows kind of?? To the left of the exhaust warning light and oil light. Might get some pics up tonight if no one can help out.

[Boof]

Low water in your radiator over flow bottle or somethinng along those lines, i overheated mine once and that warning came up, filled overflow bottle back up and didn't have any other issues

[Adam_RSX]

Is anyone elses battery light on constantly? I've always got heaps of charge to crank it over and I left it standing for a couple of months and it was fine

[rsx84]

i was wondering what that light was for too.. with my conversion the i'm using the r32 over flow bottle and its not conected to the wiring (why bother) i might just remove the bulb. one small mystery crossed of the list...

[RAD-510]

i have removed the overflow bottle from my DR cos it was in the way of running my intercooler piping and i havent had the light come on at all. As long as ya got plenty of coolant in the radiator then i wouldnt worry too much about it.

[DR JOSH]

Is anyone elses battery light on constantly?  I've always got heaps of charge to crank it over and I left it standing for a couple of months and it was fine

My bet would be that your alternator will give way in couple of weeks time. Thats what happened with mine, I believe boof has gone through a few too.

[Boof]

My bet would be that your alternator will give way in couple of weeks time. Thats what happened with mine, I believe boof has gone through a few too.

yerp word to that, 4 in a bout 3 months or something stupid!! it results from the regulater being to slow to regulate so kills the alternators pretty quickly i beleive!!

[boj01]

Coolness. The light went off straight away after restarting this morning. Just got home from a 30 min drive back from g/f's house and the light came on for a while, then went out. I checked coolant today and it was fine, but will top up over flow bottle tomorrow.

[Adam_RSX]

Hmm... the battery light has been on since I got the car and I've been driving it daily for 12,000km in 6 or 7 months.

[Boof]

Hmm... the battery light has been on since I got the car and I've been driving it daily for 12,000km in 6 or 7 months.

You checked that all your wiring to the alternator is connected?? Sounds like some dodgy wiring going on there somewhere maybe, i know when my alternators are going to die, cause all my warning lights on my dash come on, door lights the works!! Silly dr's

[BensDR30]

The reason that all the dash lights come up is the bulb-check sequence. There is a relay hooked up to the alternator & battery that is only energised when the alternator isn't charging. Hence when your alternator dies, not only do you get the charge light illuminated - all the other lamps come up too (except the high beam & cat converter temp from memory).

The original almp in question is the low coolant overflow warning lamp. Chances are that if yours doesn't work the bulb is gone - I replaced about 4 when I got my DR to get them all working.

The bulb-check sequence reveals all!