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Hi all, As you can see in the images i have a weird patch of paintwork thats on the passenger door. There is a long key scratch on there and so part of me thought it might be the old WD40 trick when I collected the car. However, after a few months and weekly (sometimes twice weekly) washing...

As above. This happened to mine just a couple of weeks ago. Most likely to be the alternator based on what you've described. Take your battery off, give it a full charge and re fit it. Once it's back in, use a multimeter to test if the voltage of the battery increases when the cars running. It's...

No tensioner or belt change as they were both done only 3 months ago luckily. Not certain but I specified a genuine part so it should be. I'll check the invoice. It's a garage I use all the time for business vehicles too so they're trustworthy

Sorry for the late reply. I'm not sure exactly as it's the garage I always use and therefore they bill be after. They said worst case £300.

Haha. Dont worry! This forum seems to argue with my phone occasionally so I'm forever posing 2 comments lol. Thanks for the heads up on the refurb. I'm gonna get the garage to do this one. As much fun as it sounds replacing them lol.

Did you take it somewhere then?

Kind of! Alternator will be ordered today and then will probably get a garage to fit it lol

Final update. With the new battery fitted things became quite apparent quite quickly. I'll try and break it down in the hope it helps someone in the future trying to diagnose their car. The old battery was dying. The voltage was dropping quickly even when not used. This wasnt down to their...

Little update. Had 5 minutes so went and checked the battery. 0.6V. I took the battery off and tried to put it on charge. It wouldn't even charge. So I'm thinking the battery could be to blame. I've bought a new battery which I'll fit soon. I'll test the draw on it with the engine off and make...

I'll give that a try on sunday and report back! Cheers guys

Great. The battery pack is on charge so I'll use that to get the girl running. Then I'll whip it off and see if it dies or if I can get a charge. If the car immediately dies after whipping the battery pack off, I'm assuming all fingers point to the alternator?

I'll give that a shot at the weekend. Only issue is that I've left the car off charge and I cant get back to it till sunday. Which obviously means the battery wont be charged when I get back to it. If I get it running with the low battery would it still be worth testing the charge?

When you say frying the battery are you talking about the alt over charging the battery? I've read somewhere that's possible. Again, I'm kinda out of my depth here. Mechanics I'm fine with. Electrics I'm totally pants.

I'll go about getting that on charge asap then! Thanks again!

Thanks for your help mate. God knows where I'd have started otherwise!

I've left the car just as is for the moment as I was out of time today. I left it off charge mainly to see if the battery dies any more as its lost voltage since I last checked it 2 days ago. When I go back to it, I'll test it to see if the battery is dead or not. If so, I'll take it off and...

I'm gonna google which wire that is lol. I also have another weird theory I just read about. My connections are quite oxidized. I wonder if when I reconnected the battery after changing the steering wheel if it's not making a solid connection and therefore draining? Is that possible?

I dont think I did. But the car just died as soon as the battery pack ran out of juice anyway.

Okay so. Went back to check the car today and found something interesting. The car was totally dead. Remote key fob didn't even unlock it. Manually unlocked it - of course the alarm worked through. Sigh. Once I got the battery pack attached and stopped that I ran the car for a bit (still with...

Damn it. I had a feeling it could be that. That was my next guess. Alternator change could be fun. Bloody cars!

Battery is showing 11.5 volts. I'm gonna run the car with the battery pack on and see if I can get the alternator to charge it up a bit

So the plot thickens. Jump pack attached it sits and idles fine. Even revs. Took the battery pack off to take it for a drive and I get the SERV and TC light come on. Then it really starts throwing wobbly. The speedo dies. All dials go dead. So I turn off the ignition and I've just gone to get...

I'll go and take a look as I have a halfords locally. I'm also going to head over when I can and put a multimeter across the battery. It has been a bit of a sod recently. If I find the car starts fine with a jump pack then it's just the o-ring to fix. I'll probably test the injectors anyway just...

Its funny you replied to this actually as I just found your post and am in the process of finding a supplier for one. where did you get your replacement one from out of interest? On that particular hose, there are 2 o rings. Mine was the black lower one that split. Basically when i realised it...

Hi Folks, Im after a bit of help. My car was throwing a misfire code and flashing the EML every so often. The idle was fine and it drove fine but obviously I didnt fancy an injector failing on me in the middle of nowhere. So, I bought a second hand fuel rail with injectors from a working car...

It's my second one. Absolutely love it all over again. It's just such a good car all round. Great mpg on a run and then a flipping hooligan when you want it to be. Cant ask for more for the money!

I'm absolutely not a mechanic but just on the description, would it be something as chunky as a wishbone? Was described as light rattling

Too far for me I'm afraid. I'm in sussex lol. But there must be someone local?

Where are you based? Could get another member to sit in the car with you to see if that could help?

Good luck with the searching. I picked mine up from Eastbourne a few months back now. Depending on what you are looking for they do come up in our area. I nearly stopped looking when all I could find was cars from up north!