Evening all,
Been a long time since have posted in these waters, We have recently been gifted a 54 plate modus from the in-laws, has been looked after, full history and just had major service and timing chain done, this morning on the good lady leaving for work it didn't want to play ball, not turning over, setting the wipers off etc.
assumed it was the battery so jumped it form the other car, fired up fine, happy wife, off she went.
message from her when she got to work, wouldn't turn over when she got to the car park after she turned it off,
Popped in to pick her up and take her back to the car ad get it started, again on getting to the car, nothing, except wipers going and flashing display, pushed it out so could get mine on the battery side to jump it, hooked up and still Nothing, Except Wipers going,
told her to put it in gear and let the handbrake off, which she did, just she forgot to lift her foot of the clutch! - my fault i guess as i didn't tell her too! ;-) so tried again, this time in gear, clutch Up, rocked it a smidge, whilst connected to mine and turned over and fired up, Wipers going again! put multimeter on the terminals and showing 13-8 - 14.2 v across, so happy it is charging,
on getting home (9 miles) checked again and still displaying same charge numbers, little battery health indicator displaying the green dot, turn off, turn on again, and no turning over, just the Wipers!
so, checked the battery with everything off, displaying 12.2v, checked with ignition on position 2, dropped down to 8v then back up to 12.2v, checked a few times to make sure and every time was the same, so believe the battery is healthy,
now, i did the old trick of wire from the battery terminal to the starter to get it to fire, but, it wouldn't, didn't make a noise, only once in a dozen attempts did it do anything, and that time was the usual clicky struggling to engage sound, - after that, still no joy with a start, but the wipers are still good! ;-)
now, with all this, and a stressy wife as she's only had the car a fortnight and broken it, i gave up, would i be right in pointing the finger at the starter motor?? it seems as if its Trying to work but just cant?? don't really want to get one, fit it and have the same issue, especially as space and access is not the best on this one!
The other issue i have heard is that of a high pitch whine like noise, coming from in the engine bay somewhere, i'd guess, around the battery area, but difficult to pin point due to access, it does sound Similar to that of an injection system priming up, just one that doesn't stop! its not something i had noticed before, but this is the first time I've had the bonnet up on it since we have owned it!
Sorry for the Monstrous post but anything to stop the good lady moping that her new cars broken! ;-)
Thanks muchly in advance for reading all that and any possible help!
Timmo.
Been a long time since have posted in these waters, We have recently been gifted a 54 plate modus from the in-laws, has been looked after, full history and just had major service and timing chain done, this morning on the good lady leaving for work it didn't want to play ball, not turning over, setting the wipers off etc.
assumed it was the battery so jumped it form the other car, fired up fine, happy wife, off she went.
message from her when she got to work, wouldn't turn over when she got to the car park after she turned it off,
Popped in to pick her up and take her back to the car ad get it started, again on getting to the car, nothing, except wipers going and flashing display, pushed it out so could get mine on the battery side to jump it, hooked up and still Nothing, Except Wipers going,
told her to put it in gear and let the handbrake off, which she did, just she forgot to lift her foot of the clutch! - my fault i guess as i didn't tell her too! ;-) so tried again, this time in gear, clutch Up, rocked it a smidge, whilst connected to mine and turned over and fired up, Wipers going again! put multimeter on the terminals and showing 13-8 - 14.2 v across, so happy it is charging,
on getting home (9 miles) checked again and still displaying same charge numbers, little battery health indicator displaying the green dot, turn off, turn on again, and no turning over, just the Wipers!
so, checked the battery with everything off, displaying 12.2v, checked with ignition on position 2, dropped down to 8v then back up to 12.2v, checked a few times to make sure and every time was the same, so believe the battery is healthy,
now, i did the old trick of wire from the battery terminal to the starter to get it to fire, but, it wouldn't, didn't make a noise, only once in a dozen attempts did it do anything, and that time was the usual clicky struggling to engage sound, - after that, still no joy with a start, but the wipers are still good! ;-)
now, with all this, and a stressy wife as she's only had the car a fortnight and broken it, i gave up, would i be right in pointing the finger at the starter motor?? it seems as if its Trying to work but just cant?? don't really want to get one, fit it and have the same issue, especially as space and access is not the best on this one!
The other issue i have heard is that of a high pitch whine like noise, coming from in the engine bay somewhere, i'd guess, around the battery area, but difficult to pin point due to access, it does sound Similar to that of an injection system priming up, just one that doesn't stop! its not something i had noticed before, but this is the first time I've had the bonnet up on it since we have owned it!
Sorry for the Monstrous post but anything to stop the good lady moping that her new cars broken! ;-)
Thanks muchly in advance for reading all that and any possible help!
Timmo.
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