shes stopped arghhhhh

[adiandvic]

well we were looking forward to meeting up with the crew from Eastbourne today couple of cerbs and another coupe of chims, but it wasnt to be.....

Help
we were going along about to floor her up a hill on the way to the meet up when the radio flickered and she started losing power. Managed to get her into a layby where the engine barely ticked over and then stopped. Tried the lights still have some electrics but not alot and I had to help the windows up as there wasnt much power left to wind them up.

It is like to battery has just gone flat, looked at the HT leads etc etc, battery connections they are all ok.
I spoke to the dealer who I bought from as shes still under warranty, they said highly unlikely to be alternator more likely to be a fuse thats inline with the alternator and battery?? a five minute fix???

any thoughts out there?????????????

Just got back, from towing her home as she was only about 1 mile away, pushed her up the drive and now Iam knackerd so off for a cuppa but thoughts welcome. I will now buy AA cover, (never really worried about it before as she is a second car and is always closish to home... but AA here I come

cheers
adi

[Pies]

It could well be the 100amp fuse its a fairly common thing to breakdown

[adiandvic]

would that not give a sudden power loss when it goes ie stop dead???

Is it easy to find so I could check it??

cheers Pies

adi

[Pies]

From what i recal its situated down by the starter motor
looks like this

[GreenV8S]

If the fuse went the engine would keep going but the battery would gradually run down. As the voltage drops things will gradually stop working correctly until eventually it just grinds to a halt.

In an emergency I'd be inclined to bypass the fusible link by bolting both wires to the same side. In fact, given that these things seem to break down quite regularly I'm not sure I'd bother to replace it. Has anyone ever been in a situation where the fusible link has done its job correctly? What is it protecting?

[ggt]

the exact symptoms happend to me twice when i had my chim,s it was that bloody fuse, my next door neighbour has had this happen to him in his chim 3 times in the last 18 months, both times that bloody fuse. hope this helps.

[adiandvic]

thaks all I will investigate tomorrow and let you know

cheers
adi

[Pies]

Dont forget to put the battery on charge overnight

[anonymous-user]

I recognise that photo


Picture Theft

[Pies]

anonymous said:

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You were AWOL and Pher in need....

[adiandvic]

as a quick fix is there any harm in by passing the fuse by joining both ends of the wire to one end of the fuse, (i dont usually try things like this but it was mentioned earlier in threads and I wondered if it was ok)
If not is there a simple replacement fuse I can get from say halfords rather than wait for the dealer to deal with the prob

cheers
adi

[UpTheIron]

adiandvic said:

as a quick fix is there any harm in by passing the fuse by joining both ends of the wire to one end of the fuse, (i dont usually try things like this but it was mentioned earlier in threads and I wondered if it was ok) If not is there a simple replacement fuse I can get from say halfords rather than wait for the dealer to deal with the prob cheers adi

Depends what blew the fuse in the first place - if it is general wear and tear or a poor contact to the fuse the at caused eventual failure then no, but if it blew to protect another component, then you could be in trouble.

[GreenV8S]

UpTheIron said:

Depends what blew the fuse in the first place - if it is general wear and tear or a poor contact to the fuse the at caused eventual failure then no, but if it blew to protect another component, then you could be in trouble.

This is the point I was making earlier. The fuses fail routinely, and in every case I've encountered, it's been because of mechanical failure of the fuse. As far as I can tell, all the fuse does is prevent the battery from discharging into the alternator if the alternator develops a dead short. And how likely is that? None of the earlier models have them, and you don't hear any horror stories about those.

[adiandvic]

ok, being a complete novice to this where do i find the starter motor, if iam looking at the front of her which side, iam asumming its down the bottom

adi

[Pies]

[adiandvic]

cheers Pies that solves it then I wont get tthis done today as I cant get under the car... no ramps thanks for the pics and help

adi

[UpTheIron]

Check your 100A fuse isn't in the passenger footwell - i.e. still in the cable between battery and alternator, just closer to the battery!

Mine was on my year 2000 Chimaera.