Freelander won't start

Jun 14, 2006 5 Replies
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Used 1.8xei last night no problems. Went to start it this evening, intermittently getting a loud ticking from around the fuse box. Alarm on/off a few times, same thing. Alarm on/off a few times more, loud dang-dang-dang-dang from the engine compartment - starter motor failing? Rocked car back & forth in gear & tried again, more engine compartment noises interminantly mixed with the engine slowly turning over once or twice before stopping. I'm now getting nothing other than the dash lights dimming when turning the ignition key, think the battery is out of charge. Any ideas?



TIA, Angus


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Charge the battery?

If that doesn't fix it, then your battery could have gone open circuit, I've had that happen twice to me in the space of a year, once on an old battery, and the second time on the new battery bought from the RAC chap who came out to rescue me the first time. All this was on an old Audi, but a battery is a battery. RAC man reckons it wasn't the car that was doing it, just bad luck.

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On charge - we'll see in the morning.

Angus

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Yep its the battery - charging it is unlikly to work - modern batteries give there all until the last second - then nothing.

Gary

Fentoozler wrote:

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Yep, battery held no charge overnight, put new one on this afternoon, everything fine.

Angus

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