Car breakdown??

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Simn

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I was driving on the motorway and suddenly the little radio screen started to flash 5-6 times, then it went normal, then suddenly the car turned completely off, everything went black, all electronics, 2 seconds later handbrake, anti spin, DSC turned on, then next second everything went back! What the **** happened?? I'm scared to drive the car now!!
 
I remember the 3.0 SMG I had did this. It was a baking hot day though.

Everything flashed then the car shutdown. It was a one off thankfully.
 
I've seen similar with failure of batteries. Check it's not got a cell out and as above the terminals are tight and clean.

If they are OK I'd be looking for a loose connection in one of the major loom connectors, but that might need diagnostics to trace it.
 
Simn said:
welsh_Z said:
Simn, take your battery to Halfords, they do a free battery test :thumbsup:
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Thanks for the tip but I don't live in the UK! :(
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Any specialist battery retailer should offer free tests (in the hope that if it fails you will buy the replacement from them). They do here in Oz.
 
Mangozac said:
Any specialist battery retailer should offer free tests (in the hope that if it fails you will buy the replacement from them). They do here in Oz.
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Right, probably almost universal. Maybe I'm just paranoid. I'm a bit sceptical when the outfit doing the testing has incentive for the test to fail. It wouldn't be too hard to rig a tester to be much harder on a battery than is reasonably called for.

Any major chain is probably fine. The bloke in a back alley shop where you wouldn't want to buy a battery from anyway is the one to watch out for.
 
I had this "car battery analyzer" home, it's a small thing u put in the cigarette lighter socket and it said the battery was weak! Gonna buy a new one tomorrow :( about 100€, expensive!
 
Simn said:
I had this "car battery analyzer" home, it's a small thing u put in the cigarette lighter socket and it said the battery was weak! Gonna buy a new one tomorrow :( about 100€, expensive!
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At least you know what the problem is.
 
Simn said:
I had this "car battery analyzer" home, it's a small thing u put in the cigarette lighter socket and it said the battery was weak! Gonna buy a new one tomorrow :( about 100€, expensive!
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100€? You could just buy a new battery for that. Why not just do a voltage test and see what you get with engine on and off?
 
cj10jeeper said:
Simn said:
I had this "car battery analyzer" home, it's a small thing u put in the cigarette lighter socket and it said the battery was weak! Gonna buy a new one tomorrow :( about 100€, expensive!
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100€? You could just buy a new battery for that. Why not just do a voltage test and see what you get with engine on and off?
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I think he means the battery is 100 Euros :D
 
Makes a lot more sense than my nonsense read of it :thumbsup:

About the same price as I paid for a battery a month ago.
 
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