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Hi

I am the proud owner of a 94 Swift Royale Talbot Express. I have had it about 18 months and have had no real problems. I splashed out  on a full service and decided to get the cam belt changed as she's done 41,000 miles and I have no records of the cam belt ever being changed. Since I have had all this work done, the engine battery goes flat after 8 - 10 days of sitting there. She has always started with the first turn of the key and this problem never occurred before I had all this work done and the workshop said that it is nothing to do with them.

They of course will look at it for me for the usual forty odd quid an hour. Not being at all mechanically minded, does anyone have any ideas on what I could check to solve the problem.

Regards

Nigel

Quote: Originally posted by tykey on 13/4/2008

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Most battery places do a free check for you (along Billy's lines) , but they will also do SG checks on each cell

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If it's as good as the battery test that Halfrauds have just done for my Son, then I wouldn't bother. The man (?) who did it didn't have clue what he was doing. Total waste of oxygen. Tried to tell the lad that he had a leak to ground

It was dead cell... Useless cur

Hi guys,

Thanks for all the advice. I will be off to Lucas at the weekend to get my battery checked. Brilliant web site and brilliant members.

Regards

Nigel

Here's one that happened to me.

Fitted an inverter and didn't clock that the thing drew a few milliamps even when not switched on. Pulled the input fuse and that solved it.

Cheers