Flat starter battery on the van

I was out in my self-build one day, to see a sparky I delivered to a lot for some advice on how to integrate the electrics he took a look and said don't, keep them separate much fewer complications, on the way home the phone rang and I pulled into a layby, call done I turned the key and it just churned away, I got recovered by Brittania to a garage I know turned out to be the crank sensor, the took off the pulley, pulled off the plastic replaceable cover and did the sensor, new cover fitted, all good, went on a trip around Scotland and I could smell hot oil so I pulled over and the pulley was cutting into the plastic cam chain cover, crap design two pieces with three spot welds and should be replaced they didn't, recovery again to the same garage to sort it, after I sold it the buyer rang after a couple of months the new pulley had done the exact same thing, this was on an 07 Citroen Relay which has the Ford Puma engine.
 
wildebus said:
no ideal.

1) scan to see codes
2) note them
3) clear them (or try to anyway)
4) back to 1
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Yes, all I saw were £ signs David so I took my eye off the ball, but it still needs to be recovered I suspect and they will scan it too to see the codes for themselves.
 
be worth having a trawl on the web for the codes to get some pointers.
I did that with my car after I got an dash error message following a service a couple of years ago and engine became hard to start. Found suggestion for fault, part needed and how to fit. down to motor factors, under a tenner for the part and 5 minutes to fit and all good :)
 
Not sure I'm up to fitting parts anymore David, I'll leave it to the garage now, pray and just take the hit.
 
Pudsey Bear said:
Not sure I'm up to fitting parts anymore David, I'll leave it to the garage now, pray and just take the hit.
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least you might get a flavour of what might be needed?
 
wildebus said:
least you might get a flavour of what might be needed?
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Well, it had to happen, the brain cell woke up & I recalled buying and OBD2 reader for the last van, so I crawled down and plugged it in, It had several pages of stored faults so I just cleared those and re-scanned to get these.

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I wouldn't discount the padlock thing as being a root cause. If an immobliser is stopping signals being sent to the fuel pump or whatever, the ECU that controls/monitors the fuel side might just see that as a fault? A generic code reader is unlikely to know about the immobiliser on a particular make. (I remember when I had an ABS problem and dash light was on, my Code Reader found no ABS issues).

When you speak to the garage, remember to tell them you saw that come up.
 
I'll accept anything positive right now Tom ;) ;)
 
TJBi said:
But you need a negative as well, or the battery won't work. ;);):ROFLMAO::ROFLMAO::ROFLMAO:
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What a bugger I forgot all about that.

My main worry is the France trip is relying on this not being too expensive as I have a MOT which may mean two new tyres and service to do yet, not sure what the interval is (not looked) but it's a year and over 5k miles at least since the last one.
 
I had a problem with my van not starting, using fiatecuscan showed multiple errors all related to the fuel system, as these only showed up after the van had been standing I tried to recall what I had been working on, the only thing related to the engine was replacing the battery and refitting the tuning box which I used to remove it for the MOT incase it caused emission issues,(I don't bother now), what I found was a blown fuse behind the plastic cover in the engine bay, I replaced the fuse and it still wouldn't start until I cleared the codes, I haven't had a problem with it since but I had already bought new sensors for the errors but never fitted them😵‍💫, they are in the van though just in case🤣
 
I was going to get fiatecuscan and did have it for our 2.8Jtd Laika a few yonks ago and despite it NOT have a proper OBD2 socket it did have a different socket that I could connect up to:-

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Yes it found a fault and I fixed it all on.my own.
 
Not had mice have you or some fraying on the loom?
 
Not that I can see Neil.

It seems a dead flat battery can really screw things up.
 
Pudsey Bear said:
I rang them & they need to test it, can't get at it to remove it as it lives against a fence, they said to leave it on charge and take it to Halfords who apparently will test and give a report which they are happy with, but it's on SORN, So I'll leave it til the endo of the month when I need to tax it anyway :rolleyes:
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Why not take the battery out and sort it now, so the van works when you need it?
 
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