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Urgent help required - Bones is in a coma!
Tried to start Bones today, only to find it won't. The starter motor engages and wizzes around, but that's it. Tried a jump start and that didn't work,. In a real fix right now as it was supposed to have some work done to it in order to get it through it's next MOT.
Help! :( Edit - Forgot to mention - The horn beeps momentarily every time I lock the car. |
It shouldnt be the battery as it had a new one from Sutton Auto Factors during my ownership. Unless its stood a lot? The alarm does drain them if not driven. Other than that over to the mechanical gurus!
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If the battery hasn’t been charged following the summer, there’s a good chance it’s run down. Put a meter on it and see what the voltage is
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But he says the starter motor engages and turns so how can it be the battery ?
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Cam sensor perhaps?
Cliff |
Now you see that's the problem. The battery was fine when I tried it, but all I got was a whirring noise from the starter motor, but no evidence of the engine turning.
Unfortunately trying to get it to start has now flattened it. :( |
The first thing to do is to get a fully charged battery on the car. Then try to start it and see how things progress.
The beep is most likely a frozen door sensor microswitch due to the cold. Nothing to worry about as they sort themselves when when the car warms up. |
Sorry to butt in here but I was there when David was trying to start it and, to me, is sounds horribly as though the flywheel is whizzing round and the rest of the engine is not :eek: Either that, or there is NO compression at all :eek: :eek:
I hope I'm wrong! |
Sounds like the starter motor is not engaging with the flywheel, so it's just spinning on it's own. As MSS has said, first thing is to get the battery sorted and go from there.
Cliff |
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