El Punto Kid
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For the past year my lovely punto has randomly being giving me trouble! It has got quite annoying so any advice would be very appreciated!
I have a 2003 reg 1.2 8V Active Sport and every so often I return to find it has a flat battery. With a jump start all is fine again - have cleaned the battery leads, put a voltmeter accross it which indicates the battery is healthy and after a drive round the block charged up so am guessing the alternator is fine. What happened recently is that the engine wouldnt idle properly and without my foot on the accelerator the revs would continue to drop past 900rpm (where it normally idles) till the engine stalled without much fight. would this be due the the battery being completely flat as the problem disappeared after allowing the engine to rev and charge the battery? (am aware it sounds like I flooded the engine but am certain I didnt)
Whats weird is sometime the revs would stumble around the 900 mark in traffic etc even tho the battery seemed fine. Is it possible the problems are linkeed? ie if i sort out what is draining the battery, it wont be constantly low on charge and this idle issue will go away?
The car was serviced and MOT'd within the last 6 months and both times the mechanics working on the car found nothing despite looking for a fault. I did replace the exhaust not too long ago (due to it rusting through) and that seemed to stop the 'hunting' around when idle for a while... also I do notice a knocking sound when the back of the car is loaded up but think thats due to the handbrake cable knocking about (read a post on the forum which related to this)... the car engine does sound a little ragged but I think thats mostly me being paranoid! the engine performance seems fine and as it has always been before this problem.
I think the drain maybe due to the hazards staying on when I lock the car... it doesnt happen often and normally I notice so unlock the car turn the hazards off and try again but sometime I guess I dont notice and over the course of a working day, maybe its enough to drain the battery such that there isnt enough juice to get the starter motor going? Anyone come acroos this problem before?
Sorry for the long boring post! Like I said any advice would be much appreciated, even if its just telling me how wrong I am, and I have a much bigger problem!
I have a 2003 reg 1.2 8V Active Sport and every so often I return to find it has a flat battery. With a jump start all is fine again - have cleaned the battery leads, put a voltmeter accross it which indicates the battery is healthy and after a drive round the block charged up so am guessing the alternator is fine. What happened recently is that the engine wouldnt idle properly and without my foot on the accelerator the revs would continue to drop past 900rpm (where it normally idles) till the engine stalled without much fight. would this be due the the battery being completely flat as the problem disappeared after allowing the engine to rev and charge the battery? (am aware it sounds like I flooded the engine but am certain I didnt)
Whats weird is sometime the revs would stumble around the 900 mark in traffic etc even tho the battery seemed fine. Is it possible the problems are linkeed? ie if i sort out what is draining the battery, it wont be constantly low on charge and this idle issue will go away?
The car was serviced and MOT'd within the last 6 months and both times the mechanics working on the car found nothing despite looking for a fault. I did replace the exhaust not too long ago (due to it rusting through) and that seemed to stop the 'hunting' around when idle for a while... also I do notice a knocking sound when the back of the car is loaded up but think thats due to the handbrake cable knocking about (read a post on the forum which related to this)... the car engine does sound a little ragged but I think thats mostly me being paranoid! the engine performance seems fine and as it has always been before this problem.
I think the drain maybe due to the hazards staying on when I lock the car... it doesnt happen often and normally I notice so unlock the car turn the hazards off and try again but sometime I guess I dont notice and over the course of a working day, maybe its enough to drain the battery such that there isnt enough juice to get the starter motor going? Anyone come acroos this problem before?
Sorry for the long boring post! Like I said any advice would be much appreciated, even if its just telling me how wrong I am, and I have a much bigger problem!