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No start
Posted: Fri Jul 31, 2009 12:51 pm
by Mr Funk
can switch onto first stage and the fuel pump goes "whir". Try to start it and get nothing. Think I can hear the click but there's no spark. If all that makes sense.
Thought it as the same problem I had before but all the plugs are firmly in the fuse box.
Re: No start
Posted: Fri Jul 31, 2009 1:15 pm
by Nate
just a click and the engine doesn't turn at all? sounds like you've got bat flattery there mr funk sir. flick the headlights on and see if they're nice and bright. if they're not, it's flat. if they are, leave them on and try starting it again. if they more or less go out then it is flat.
also worth checking the earth onto the gearbox is clean and tight
Re: No start
Posted: Fri Jul 31, 2009 1:41 pm
by Mr Funk
Hooked it up to the diesel and it started first time.
Sir is owed an English pint.
Re: No start
Posted: Mon Aug 03, 2009 1:59 am
by Nate
was there a cause for it going flat? was it weeks and weeks since last it was started, had you left something on or do you have an electrical drain you need to find?
Re: No start
Posted: Mon Aug 03, 2009 6:56 pm
by Mr Funk
Not sure to be honest. It's probably a lot to do it it being an old battery. It doesn't get used during the week for the most part unless I'm working locally then ued at the weekend. If i'm working on it then I tend to run the stereo as well.
Re: No start
Posted: Tue Aug 04, 2009 12:05 am
by Nate
Mr Funk wrote:If i'm working on it then I tend to run the stereo as well.
that's probably it. goodo :)
Re: No start
Posted: Tue Aug 04, 2009 1:02 pm
by KindredSpirit
When it goes 'whirr' - does it do it again when you try and start her again.
If not, it could be fuel pump relay, or the pump itself. Had a similar prob last year, RAC sorted me with the relay, but didn't last that long.
They have a habit of giving up (at our age
).
Think it's number 17 on the relay but not sure (Haynes aren't that helpful on this).
Had to have mine bypassed.
Flipping 'eck, I sound like a pensioner.
Cheers
John
Re: No start
Posted: Wed Aug 05, 2009 4:47 pm
by Mr Funk
It's either the battery or the alternator but without a voltmeter I can't find out which.
Which leads me onto.....
If you have a full closure alarm system and no locks/boot button and you never actually got round to wiring up the over ride switch don't be surprised if you can't get into your car.
Re: No start
Posted: Wed Aug 05, 2009 7:14 pm
by Nate
Re: No start
Posted: Wed Aug 05, 2009 8:35 pm
by Mr Funk
Indeed.
There is one but it's in the car as I was concealing it within all the other gubbins. Luckily I found another way.