Please Help

[Makino]

Yours defo sounds like battery. Good luck with that.

I have just been speaking to a friend, who suggests the COLD START could be out. After which, they promptly disconnected me as calling from work!

Anyone else has an insight to this?

Thank you

[nikp]

[ Now out of my depth! :p ]

[Makino]

hehehe. Come on mate, you\'ve been great so far. :p

[gsb876]

There is a possibility that the battery connections are bad, thus may start on the odd occassion but once you\'ve been driving they have moved around and no fire

Also if you charged the battery and it was ok but upon restart nothing, the battery itself may be dead thus get a new battery, as i had this fault with the battery not 2 months ago, everything ok now.

[nikp]

The battery should be easy to check - get a cheap tester (Mine was £5 from Maplins) and check the voltage on the battery before it\'s re-charged. If less than 12.4 volts is shafted.

The bad connections/bad earth is a common problem on FDs as far as i understand. I know that even my earth connector is loose and will not tighten up, but have not actually had many problems with it.

So, is there a consistent pattern that you can describe?  Starts fine with a fully charged battery when cold, but then won\'t re-start after a good drive (The drive should be for at least 15 minutes in my opinion, to make sure it has warmed up properly, so it doesn\'t flood).

If it\'s inconsistent, then probably look for bad earth.

If it\'s consistent, like i just described, look at either duff battery (possible - get it checked), duff alternator (Check it for charging when the car is idling with no other load on it - should be in the region of 14 volts at the battery terminals), or something else - like this cold start thing which i know nothing about.

At the moment, since you haven\'t yet checked charge in the battery, and capacity to hold that charge, my money is still on a battery being duff.

[clive]

Hi Makino

Sorry to hear your having problems.

Here\'s a couple of things
You say you have had the water out so is it bled properly because if the water is not going around the system properly the cold start will activate but won\'t come off .

Also are you on a little now old battery, if so if there\'s not enough volts to turn it properly it could be that you have flooded it again and then putting a jump on it won\'t help.

Somtimes it does take quite a wile to get rid of the unburnt fuel after a flood so give it a good run next time but after you know your water system is O/K.

Iwould put in 9\'s all found as the 7\'s are really to hot for a "tuned car" and unless your on real big power you won\'t need the 10\'s anyway!

[iaint]

Is there any chance that the problems with hot starting could be down to very low compression?  sorry to be a pessemist!