skippy41 wrote:
LAtaxi wrote:
Thanks, it is an Auto.
I'll have a look but it's only got 23k miles on it and I do less than 3,000 a year on it. About 2k miles ago I had a full service including all fluids. We did the fuel filter, air filter and oil filter. Could it be that I already need a new fuel filter?
I'm thinking it has to be either a faulty starter or bad power to it; When I use the charger on 200amp start or jump it from another car, it turns fast enough to start pretty quickly, but again if I haven;t tun it for 3 days it takes about 15 chuggs of the engine to get running. I'm thinking the starter isn't rolling it over fast enough or it could be a combination of poor power to the starter and bad plugs?
I'm going to replace the battery terminals and go from there, and maybe next replace the starter.....
Try a new heavy duty battery along with new cables, did they change the thin filter inside the gearbox?? when you had it serviced
this gives you an idea of what to do
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LBXXxQnmBOkThanks Skippy - I cut off the old terminals and replaced them with some gold "Raptor" Brand once and it's made a massive difference! Power gets to the starter much better now! I can nearly start it with the Air Conditioning on (but not quite unless it's already warmed up)
.....but it's still got issues: I didn't run the car for 3 days and when I went to start it, there was so little power left it couldn't turn the engine over once. I have a serious power drain somewhere.
The only two obvious things are that I had to rewire the connections to the radio as the original owner hadn't connected the constant power (so it would lose memory every time the car was switched off). I didn't do a thorough check on all those connections when I re did it.
The only other thing is that my left indicator is doing double time which normally means a bulb has gone.
Does anyone have any ideas as to what the drain could be? Any usual suspects?
At wannabeahack - Pig is the exact way to describe the doratorq! How do you upgrade the bios in the PCM? Do you mean the Body Control Module? I don't have one top hand, but can borrow a MASI cable and software if you're meant to do it with that? Otherwise I've got the proper TX Scan Tool 2000 here so can it be done with that?