Recent content by tony2

Thanks Saint V8 for your input. Will start looking in fernet in the new year :-)

Maybe a daft question but, is your alarm sounder working ? If not the alarm going off could be draining your battery. Can you beg, borrow or steel a interior sensor and swap it to see if your problem goes away ?

Take a look at this video on you tube, might be your issue, easy to test. Let me know if it works for you.

Thanks for your reply Gold rover. When I say gutless, the general view seems to be that they accelerate quite slowly and are a bit short on torque. I don't know personally because I have never driven one. I only drove a 4.4 TDV8 and that bugger flies.

Hi all. Well, after 6 years of owning my 4.6 P38 I have let her go, not far mind, my Son is now it's new owner. Despite the tails of woe that abound I found my P38 to be a reliable, dependable machine. It has been well maintained and well looked after and has never let me down or left me...

Good used Alternator fitted on Wednesday and all back to normal operation. Hopefully that is the end of it. Thanks to all who contributed to the thread :-)

More investigation work done today........ Charged battery up overnight and now reading 12.7 volts, nice and healthy. As you suggested tomcat, checked at the Alternator terminal and reading 12.7 volts also. Turned on ignition and Alternator Fault came up on the display plus there is no ignition...

At the Battery. All cables removed and checked earlier including the Alternator cables

Well, thanks to brianp38dse, I decided to recheck the Alternator output. Engine running 14.3 volts, switched on headlights, front and rear screen heaters, blowers etc, 13.8 volts. After a few minutes dropped to 12 volts and then rapidly dropped off to 8 volts !!!! Turned engine off and left it...

Hi odyssey. When engine running showing 14.3 volts across the battery so, looks like it's ok.

It must be something to do with the battery internals but, so unusual to be intermittent. Normally if a battery fails it remains failed !!! Thanks for the info on the receiver, I thought the blue spot was the latest.....oh well more money.

Guess what......the electrical Gremlin is back !!!!! Driving home yesterday when suddenly electrics start playing up again. Same thing radio went off, instruments stopped working, gearbox fault etc. I was only 100 yards from home so, I parked up, turned the engine off and tried to restart it, no...

Update.... Well, it's been a week since I disconnected the RF antenna so , I tried starting the car and away it went,no more flat battery. The new fuse box arrived Thursday and I have fitted it today. Time will tell if it was the cause of my electrics failure or not, but I do hope it was.

Holy s**t, just googled the RF Receiver and it's selling for nearly £300 including VAT !!! They were a rip off at £150. Seems the rarer they get the more expensive they get.

Thanks, will check it out.