Ghost in the machine?

[Stuarta]

I have recently started to see a number of symptoms that may or may not (I hope) indicate a developing electrical problem.

First sign was that the stereo started switching itself on while I was driving. No hands anywhere near a button to do so - radio switches on. Not a big deal - by itself.

Then, yesterday, I was picking up a colleague to go to work and noticed that the seat-heating had switched itself on. At the same time, the ventilated seat function, had stopped working. For many, this would not be a big problem but it's only may and already 43 degrees here, so I'd rather get it fixed before summer!

I tried cycling the seat heaters on and off, re-selecting the ventilation and so on but to no avail. Luckily, I stopped for fuel shortly afterwards and the stop-start of the systems seems to have cleared the problem.

Haven't had a chance to vag-com it yet to see if there are any codes but am worried that it may be water ingress into connectors (although it hasn't properly rained here for over a year) or similar.

Anyone seen this before?



p.s. Friend has now nicknamed the car "Christine"!