Just got the car towed back to mine (glad its a manual now lol), was driving along, big pop out of the rear of the exhaust as the electrics died, had absolutely no power at the side of the road so couldn't even stick me hazards on.

 

Anyway get it home, playing with the positive battery terminal, seems someone who owned the car had extended the wire at some point and this seems to of worked its self loose, most likely when i was doing the gearbox, joining it back up correctly gives me lights to the dash but the car wont crank now. there is no noise at the starter motor, no clicking or anything. ive checked all fuses in the engine bay and they are all ok

 

any one got any clues? or where to start looking?

Edited June 14, 201213 yr by vodkashots

Start looking at the relays and fuses in the drivers footwell mate, let me know if you need any spares as i still have them all on my breaker

well when i first pulled over, the battery was sparking like mad when trying to take the negative off, there was no electric to the dash at this point, so something with a main live feed was earthing directly to the body work., i have a spare positive cable in the garage so thats not an issue in changing that, just need to figure out why no power to the starter.

 

Something must of been drawing hugh voltage just before the electrics failed.

 

One thing i was supprised about though when the power went out, was the almost lack of breaks??

Had my battery lead come off once while I was lets say ( going a little bit too fast on some awsome hill roads) any way scared the crap out ofme as no power steering no brakes no nothing!!!

Had my battery lead come off once while I was lets say ( going a little bit too fast on some awsome hill roads) any way scared the crap out ofme as no power steering no brakes no nothing!!!

 

basically just what i had then :whistling:

 

Just remembered, could be the bypass i did on the starter relay now the powers back, best check that to make sure everything is still ok. other wise the car is definitely not going to start, it might of been fine yesterday but the relay may have come loose from the mounting slot thingy it clips into. worth a check.

That sounds about right voddy. Starter draws hudge amounts of leccy.

SOLVED.

 

Went and had a look in the garage at the starter motor that had the positive cable on it, and it was brand spanking new, should of paid more attention to that yesterday when doing the gearbox, changed that over, checked the starter relay bypass, id only rigged it to see if the car would start, got too excited when it did and took it for a drive and forgot about it, oops :lol:, anyway needless to say the bypass has come undone, so sorted that out on a more permanent and water proof basis, and all is good in the land of the zed again :D

hurrah!

glad you got to the bottom of it dude

Doh!!! lol