Wipers, headlights, blinkers and fan for air conditioning all stopped working at the same time. I have a 2000 1.8L Beetle

LIGHT INDICATOR AND WIPER ALL PART OF YOU SWITCH ON THE STEERING COLUMN .BUT FIRST READ YOU MANUAL AND CHECK ALL THE FUSES.INSIDE AND OUTSIDE THE JEEP.NEXT FOLLOW THE GROUND WIRE FROM THE BATTERY AND MAKE SURE THE WIRE IS CLEAN AND TIGHT TO THE BODY.MORE GROUND WIRE WILL FIND UNDER THE DASH BOARD CLOSE TO THE DOOR HINCH.
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had this problem with my caravan recently all it took was checking fuses and if they are good take off your batt+ wire for 5 min and rehook it if that fails then check your dash cluster harness mine got pinched and shorted out most of the same things you have not working

this is a bad switch..replace it!

There is a gang of fuses on top of the battery under a plastic cover. These burn out.... make up a jumper fused wire to the loom using parts from your FLAPS.

Even if the fuses look good your find the holder burnt in the plastic.

GO TO THIS SiTE TO CHECK THE FUSE BOX!
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This are the FUSE and RELAY number SLOT!
Fuse No. Description Ampere Rating 1 Headlight, low beam, left 10 2 Headlight, low beam, right 10 3 Instrument panel lights, license plate lights 10 4 Glove compartment light 15 5 Wiper/washer 15 6 Fresh air blower 16-valve only: Air conditioning 20 7 Taillights, side marker light, right 10 8 Taillights, side marker light, left 0 9 Rear window defogger 20 10 2.0 16-valve only: Fog lights 15 11 Headlight, high beam, left,High beam indicator light 10 12 Headlight, high beam, right 10 13 Horn 16-valve only: Radiator cooling fan 10 14 Back-up lights, washer nozzle heaters 10 15 2.0 16-valve only: Engine electronics, stabilizer valve, cold start valve 10 16 Instrument panel warning lights, 16-valve only: Multi function indicator 15 17 Emergency flasher switch, turn signals 10 18 Fuel pump, oxygen sensor heater 20 19 Radiator cooling fan, air conditioning 30 20 Brake lights, cruise control 10 21 Interior lights, digital clock 16-valve only: Luggage compartment light,multi function indicator, central locking 15 22 Radio, cigarette lighter 10
Relays Relay No. Description 1 Air conditioning 2 Open 3 Digifant control unit 4 Load reduction relay 5 Low coolant level control unit or Open 6 Emergency flashers 7 Rear Wiper 8 Intermittent wipers 9 Seat belt warning system control unit (possibly headlight warning too?) 10 Fog lights 11 Horn 12 Fuel pump (except diesel)Glow plugs (diesel) 13 Radiator cooling fan after run (except 16-valve)2.0 16-valve: Starter interlock relay 14 Automatic trans., coolant temperature indicator,starter interlock relay (except 2.0 16-valve)2.0 16-valve: Radiator cooling fan after run 15 ABS pump relay 16 ABS relay 17 Heated seat control unit, driver 18 Heated seat control unit, passenger, or power seat circuit breaker 19 Automatic transmission 20 Open 21 Power window relay, ABS hydraulic pump fuse 22 ABS valves fuse 23 Air conditioning, power seat fuse 24 Power window fuse

vw's have problems with the body electrical control module failing due to water in the vehicle has water in the driverside? the module is under the carpet under the driverside infront of the seat. hopefully its just a bad connection down there..

1-heated washer nozzle, heated outside mirrors 10A 2-turn signal system 3-illumination 4-license plate light 5-comfort system 6-central locking 7-buck-up lights 8-telephone system 9-abs 10-engine control-gasoline 11-instrument cluster, shiftlock 12-B+ for DLC 13-brake lights 14-interior lights w/ central locking 15-instrument cluster,automatic transmission 16-a/c clutch, electrical water pump 17- door lock heater 18-right head light , high beam 19-left headlight ,high beam 20-right headlight ,low beam 21-left headlight low beam 22-sidemarker light, right 23-sidemarker light left 24- wiper system, washer pump 25-fresh air blower, air conditioning 26-rear window defogger 27- daytime running lghts 28-fue pump 29-engine control, gasoline/desel 30-sunroof 31-automatic transmission 32-injectors 33-headlight washer 34- engine control 35-trailer socket 36- foglights 37-radiosystem 38-luggage compartment lights, central locking system 39-emergency flasher 40-dual horn 41-cigaritte lighter 42- radio system 43- engine control 44-heated seats

vw uses coil on plugs so each plug has a coil under engine cover on top of valve cover check fuses first for your other problem

check your ground conections under the dash first. and if they look ok take them apart and clean them anyway, and if the problem is still not fixed look for what all of these systems have in common. i would suspect the grounds though its common on vw problems.

may be a relay switch.