Non starting Cup (help please)

[dace]

My Cup is virtually impossible to start if its not driven for a week or so. Twist the key in the ignition, let the lights go out and turn once more and nothing happens - totally dead. Try again and again and still nothing. Banging the underside steering column sometimes helps. Yet it will start perfectly when warm!

Its been to the garage 5 times since Christmas and each time they claim to have sorted it, adjusting/replacing ignition decoder, injection sysytem and a number of other things, but suprise, suprise a week or two later Im back booking it in.

Anyone got any suggestions, that I could pass on to my useless (and uninterested) dealer.

Cheers

 

[Middo]

what is the charge like in the battery when its been left for a week? the battery could have a bad earth. otherwise its going to be the electrics of your car - which i have absolutely no idea about lol

 

[182_blue]

^^yeh is battery ok

 

[TheCake]

d check battery as Middo said, but also the alternator.. what type of driving do you do? small or decent length journeys?

 

[dace]

Yeah battery is fully charged.

Length of journeys varies some w/es 20/30 miles, others 300/400.

 

[JAY172]

does it turn over or is it completly dead (starter moter doesnt even work?)

 

[dace]

Completly dead

 

[Little Newms]

I had this mate...... would gor for a 100 mile journey, go to start it up 2 hours later nothing! I needed a new starter motor and also the whole wiring loom had to be replaced

 

[Floodie]

^^ exactly the same as me - stopped wanting to work just after filling up at petrol stations too - extremely annoying