The Doctor
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Here's the story;
Driving to work on Friday, red dash battery warning light came on intermittently (battery is only 2 yrs old and a decent one).
Suspect alternator etc is at fault.
Wife borrowed car at weekend (against my advice), drove it half a mile and turned the engine off.
Guess what? Wouldn't start (flat battery) as I told her... Wife is definitely at fault.
So I jump-started it from our Galaxy and let it run for 5mins or so to whilst connected to get some charge back into the battery.
Went to drive it back home (half a mile) and it just died completely (yellow DIS battery light came on, everything shut down and that was that).
Pushed it back home with the wife steering!
Fully re-charged battery out of the car for 24hours.
Just re-fitted the battery.
Now it turns over fine but does not fire.
Why not?
Fuel pump needs re-priming?
ECU gone into some sort of protection mode and needs re-setting?
???
Help please! Need to get it to the garage 1st thing Thurs morning.
Driving to work on Friday, red dash battery warning light came on intermittently (battery is only 2 yrs old and a decent one).
Suspect alternator etc is at fault.
Wife borrowed car at weekend (against my advice), drove it half a mile and turned the engine off.
Guess what? Wouldn't start (flat battery) as I told her... Wife is definitely at fault.
So I jump-started it from our Galaxy and let it run for 5mins or so to whilst connected to get some charge back into the battery.
Went to drive it back home (half a mile) and it just died completely (yellow DIS battery light came on, everything shut down and that was that).
Pushed it back home with the wife steering!
Fully re-charged battery out of the car for 24hours.
Just re-fitted the battery.
Now it turns over fine but does not fire.
Why not?
Fuel pump needs re-priming?
ECU gone into some sort of protection mode and needs re-setting?
???
Help please! Need to get it to the garage 1st thing Thurs morning.