Posts: 39
Since: 7/8/2011
Region: South West
Status: online
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hi Virginia, I would suggest checking your battery and all of the terminal connections from your battery. I had a similar problem and I have done the following: a) Tighten the positive and negative battery terminals in the boot. The negative terminal was very loose. When you ask for 30Amp during a start, through a loose connection you don't get it! b) check the bulk head battery connection. Its in the back engine bay near the washer bottle c) If these are tight - replace the battery - get a really high cca battery fitted e.g. 80 cca and keep the old one on trickle for a while. d) Then it in the boot with jump leads ready for the emergency situation. When you can't start connect the spare to the main battery using the jump leads to give it some help. e) Before you try and start the car, turn off lights, aircon, radio etc to give it lowest load. f) double check your slow speed fan control works. A good indicator could be to persuade someone to bump start the car when it is sulking. If it bump starts your battery is probably not able to cope with the radiator fan, lights, air con etc PLUS the starter motor and something important e.g. spark plugs is missing out. My guess is that the load which the car sometimes asks for is not always available from the battery thats why its hard to start with the fans, lights, air con etc on sometimes, and why it stops working at low RPM. cheers, Zombie
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