Battery issue? Alternator issue, or..

[Stay Puft]

Not on my clio, on my girlfriends corsa 1.2 sxi (2002).

It sometimes struggles to start, turns over a few times very slowly, then finally starts. When on full lock her power is 'sucked away' and sometimes the steering wheel jumps as if it is losing power steering and EPAS light comes on the dash, and headlights and dash lights go dim.

It had a new battery a few weeks ago. Im no mechanic..

 

[Ads29]

If it's already had a new battery then there's 3 things I'd start off checking, alternator, starter motor and their wiring back to battery including the earth points as well

 

[Stay Puft]

Cheers mate, will see what I can do..

 

[Ads29]

You're looking for 14.4 ish volts from alternator with the car running, after that I'd go to wiring and looking for any damage or corrosion (green powdered surface to exposed copper) or rusted earth points, basically anything that doesn't look nice and clean can affect either or both power and earth.

If all the above is ok then I'd move towards it being a starter problem, however if when the new battery was installed the problems went away briefly I'd expect it to be a problem with either of the above rather than the starter motor itself