My wife's work transport is a 1998 Ford Ka 2. which has only 30,000 on the clock and has until today been exceeedingly reliable despite being used only for short journeys. This evening my wife left work, the car started normally and ran perfectly fine to a supermarket .(about 3 miles). It started and ran again perfectly normally for the journey from the supermarket to home (about 2 miles) but then stalled whilst she was in the process of reversing into ourdrive, Since then it will start and run momentarily but has no power and quickly dies whether it is left to idle or the accelerator is pressed. The fuel gauge shows over a quarter of a tank and it is a dry pleasant early May evening here in the suburbs of Norwich.
The battery was healthy until our repeated attempts to start the car.
What should I check please?
Peter