Thread: TD5 heart skipped a beat

When you turned the key to start did you her anything at all? A click? Or absolutely nothing. Is your fuel pressure regulator leaking? If it is the fuel leaks onto the starter solenoid causing a non starter.

Other than that from 5 years of sucking up the info on this site I would get your battery "load tested" on an analogue tester (not a digital tester) at your local auto elec.

Lots of wacko stuff is caused by a dicky battery.

Cheers

AP

Everything fired up when it I turned it to lights, but lost all power when trying to turn over the engine, no clicks nothing. It was like the whole car had no power. At that stage nothing electric worked, and turned the key back to the dash lights nothing. If it was electric, no go.

Probably spent a minute under the bonnet checking fuses, connections etc.

Went back and turned the key and lights were back, then turned the engine on first kick over of the starter motor (back to normal).

I never have any trouble starting the car, always fires and starts very quickly and consistently.

Someone else posted something similar here too recently. Happened to me too, once, and never again.

Sorry, not much help!

Poor or loose earth connections at places like the alternator and starter have caused simlar.

Search for info on earth connections.

Thats about my limit

Cheers

Key fob battery dead or dying and it happens with the key in the ignition without the ignition on. Car no longer recognises key transponder. Happened to me.

It's happened to me a few times and was a loose positive terminal.

It can be on, but not tight and has enough current to power everything, except the high current loads of the starter. When you turn to start, you hear a click and then everything goes dead and stays dead until you fiddle around and tighten the terminal.

Thanks heaps, will double check my positive and earth terminals that are in the vicinity of anything I touched when installing the driving lights.

Had a GQ that did dodgy things after I replaced a broken earth wire. When I replaced it I got power steering fluid between the surfaces of the terminals. Engine wasn't earthed to battery, causing starter and fuel solenoid issues.