Recent content by blackburnbertie

Thanx for all your advice people.

Cheers mate will do.

My brother in law will have to take a look, good with elastic trickery

I’ve come to that conclusion already mate. I slapped on a power booster and it showed 13.5 v. Bypass the earth. Still the same

Hi, I put on a power pack and battery shows 13.5. I’ve also bypassed the earth onto the engine. No change. I put the key in and the display dims and there is a clicking sound.

The battery is fine. The abs pump sounds like it’s struggling and there’s a ticking sound coming from under the bonnet. Also it’s throwing up a abs failure caption with drive at 35 etc.

The battery is fine. I put the ignition on without starting, the abs pump sounds like it’s struggling and there is ticking coming from under the bonnet on the rightas you look at the engine. I’ve checked the battery connections and they are tight.

Hi folks. My old girl is at it again. Diesel P38 2000. I put the key in the abs pump starts to pressurise and then a second or two later the dash lights dim and complete power loss from battery. And It’s a new battery. Caption comes on abs failure. Is the abs pump shagged or could it be the relay ?

Thanx folks for all your replies. Strange thing is it hasn’t done it for a week now.

The fault flashes up before the key is turned.

When I ordered a new sensor it was red. The one coming out was black. I believe they’re different part numbers and I’ve been told if you fit the wrong one it won’t work.

New battery went in after last weeks mega freeze.

Hi mate, can you rewrite your second sentence. It seems a bit garbled. Ta

Hi folks. I’ve recently had a gearbox overheat caption coming on. Even when I’ve just started the car up. Thinking it was the sensor I got a new one. Now the one we thought was broken looked a bit sorry for itself so we replaced it. The colour of the new one was a reddy colour whereas the old...

What should I use silicon or graphite ?