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Hi all, I'm sure someone here will know about this problem.
Periodically my girl refuses to start and I'm certain it's to do with the immobiliser. Bought this car with no history or manuals, so I'm assuming there is a factory fitted basic immobiliser. There's no additional alarm system fitted, the only key is a standard old fashioned key, no blipper or anything.
A few times now (and always when most inconvenient, lol!) I get in, stick the key in as normal. The dash lights come on, radio starts, I hear the bleep for starting, turn the key and nothing. All dash lights and radio go off, it looks like the car has just died, I hear a click from somewhere within the dash and she just says 'no thanks'.
I've tried all sorts of things, getting out and locking / unlocking SOMETIMES works, but not always. Shouting, swearing and walking away for 5 minutes SOMETIMES works, but not always. The only thing that has sorted it every time is to sling some jump leads onto one of the batteries, turn it over and it's an instant start. Once started I can restart again without jump leads after 30 seconds of running, so it's definitely not a flat or sluggish battery (gauge always shows that batteries are up in the high 80% range).
It only happens after I've locked it (very rare, because I live in a very quiet place!) so it's usually in town, on a petrol forecourt or somewhere equally awkward. I'm pretty sure it's something that I'm doing with the key in the door lock, but as I don't know what I'm doing I can't stop doing it :-)
Is there a factory fitted immobiliser at work here? If so, is there a key sequence that gets it's knickers in a knot?
Ideally if it's going to play up like this I would like to either know how to get out of it, or if there's no foolproof way, to disable it so I don't get the problem. I'm not too worried about theft, it's really old and doesn't generally do much outside our farm where it's about as safe as you can get.
Any help very welcome, thanks in advance
Anne
Periodically my girl refuses to start and I'm certain it's to do with the immobiliser. Bought this car with no history or manuals, so I'm assuming there is a factory fitted basic immobiliser. There's no additional alarm system fitted, the only key is a standard old fashioned key, no blipper or anything.
A few times now (and always when most inconvenient, lol!) I get in, stick the key in as normal. The dash lights come on, radio starts, I hear the bleep for starting, turn the key and nothing. All dash lights and radio go off, it looks like the car has just died, I hear a click from somewhere within the dash and she just says 'no thanks'.
I've tried all sorts of things, getting out and locking / unlocking SOMETIMES works, but not always. Shouting, swearing and walking away for 5 minutes SOMETIMES works, but not always. The only thing that has sorted it every time is to sling some jump leads onto one of the batteries, turn it over and it's an instant start. Once started I can restart again without jump leads after 30 seconds of running, so it's definitely not a flat or sluggish battery (gauge always shows that batteries are up in the high 80% range).
It only happens after I've locked it (very rare, because I live in a very quiet place!) so it's usually in town, on a petrol forecourt or somewhere equally awkward. I'm pretty sure it's something that I'm doing with the key in the door lock, but as I don't know what I'm doing I can't stop doing it :-)
Is there a factory fitted immobiliser at work here? If so, is there a key sequence that gets it's knickers in a knot?
Ideally if it's going to play up like this I would like to either know how to get out of it, or if there's no foolproof way, to disable it so I don't get the problem. I'm not too worried about theft, it's really old and doesn't generally do much outside our farm where it's about as safe as you can get.
Any help very welcome, thanks in advance
Anne
). I'm sure it's not that, it literally takes seconds of jump charge, starts straight away and restarts immediately when the leads are off. It never sounds sluggish on starting, these batteries haven't given me a minutes problem.
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