Car not starting

[Chas88]

I tried to start up the Cerb with no joy. The fuel pump primes as normal but when pressing the start button it just ticks over once then dies. It has been on trickle charge and is showing as fully charged before I try to start it. Being a mechanical numpty on these sort of things anyone got any ideas on what could be wrong and how to fix it?

Link below to a video to show what is happening.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mwl9VZzeLyw

[Latty666]

Sounds like a faulty battery , also your oil light is not working?

[matty1275]

duff battery

[Jhonno]

Definitely seems the battery isn't giving the goods..

[C3BER]

Dead as a Norwegian Blue.

Yours has more power than mine as I needed the power of a landrover and its jump leads to close the windows.

If you keep on you will set the alarm and your mil light will fail.

[Obiwonkeyblokey]

did this a few weeks ago, boot was locked couldnt open it, tried to get into the car ( 2am) cue alarm going off, bloody nightmare. eventually got into the boot through the secret method and managed to connect up the trickle charger which enabled me to switch off the alarm. even d/c the battery made no difference to the alarm and F me its loud in a confined space.

[brakedust]

Worth getting some jump leads on it to see what happens, is the trickle charger a good one?

[C3BER]

Did you ever solve your problem?

[ukkid35]

For what it's worth my car will crank for 20 or 30 seconds or more, without firing at all, if the battery is low.

But once the battery is charged it will start instantly. I reckon either the injectors or the coil packs simply fail to work once the cranking voltage drops below a certain level. No point in persevering, that simply lengthens the time taken to bring the battery back up.

30 or 40 minutes on a (base model Halfords) charger is usually enough to get the car to start.

[Byker28i]

Not worth mucking about for the price of a battery. If it's on it's way out, just changes it.

[C3BER]

Byker28i said:

Not worth mucking about for the price of a battery. If it's on it's way out, just changes it.

That's what I thought and did. Ten minutes of unscrewing and screwing had me on my way rather than trying to revive a obvious dead battery.

[Chas88]

C3BER said:

Did you ever solve your problem?

Yeah it was the battery, all sorted now.

[C3BER]

Excellent news. Most issues tend to be obvious in the end but its getting to the obvious is the problem