Technical starting problems and missing

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Technical starting problems and missing

rickylowther

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hi,

i have a brava 1.6 auto on a p plate,

i have had it now for the last 2-3mths when i got the car it had a very slight mis, not a problem you could drive the car,

after a while this got bad, some times not being able to go above 2000rpm and it just coughing and splutering up the road, fixed this by haveing to clean the plugs every weekend so the dam thing drives. when looking at the plugs they are full of black ****, and the plugs are on 300 miles old changed them when i got the car.

the other problem i have is with starting the car, i can start the car early morning snow rain fine, drive it around to the shops about 3miles away turn the engine of. go to start it the thing will not start, then engine turns half a crank and then stops and all the lights on the dash go out as if the battery was flat. but leave the car let it cool down for about an hour and it will start again.

what can the be.

many people have told me new battery new starte motor and new alternator. but me being me i test these first before getting a new one.

the start motor is fine. i have tested the alternator and that is charging fine all the time. i have a volt meter pluged up to this and on display on my dash now for the last 2 weeks.

the battery is fully charged.

the other thing is that i have tried and fialed is that when you try to jump start it with leads from another battery it still wont start, (this other battery jumps starts my dads transit van) but plug it up to another car and it will go. i have tried just using a earth lead but it still wont start so i belive this is not a bad earth.

any ideas would be great, sorry to be so long winded, but if i dont get it fixed soon a will end up bricking the windows one day on the thing and giving it to the kids out side to smach up.

thanks
 
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