After fitting my radiator to my 94 2.0L Nissan Primera, I drove round the block a few times, fine. I drove to and from work yesterday fine, I drove my mom to and from her sisters house in the freezing cold yesterday fine, I drove to and from Tesco's yesterday, fine.
I drive to McDonalds today enroute to work, the radio was cutting out. Never done that before. So I turn down the radio and turn off the heated rear window. OK.
Try to start up at McDonalds, and the bloody thing won't start. I had to call out for a jumpstart from work.
Im now a little worried I either need a new battery or a new alternator since when the hose blasted off from my radiator, it drenched the alternator in a lot of liquid. But it's been fine ever since... for... well... a few days at least.
My car has done this before, but usually after I've run it for 10 seconds then tried to start it again the following day... I can't figure it out... I mean, it can't be the cold as it was warmer today than yesterday, could it be a a slow but excessive discharge?
I'll be getting my multimeter to it, but Im not holding out much hope that I'll actually find the problem. But being familiar with how water has affected the alternator on my Datsun Cherry, Im thinking it could be the regulator...
Any opinions gratefully received.
Cheers Simon