Cat2
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Firstly, sorry for the length of this!
On my way to work on Wednesday my car just cut out when changing from 5th to 4th gear (going uphill). I have done this journey many times and this has never happened before .
When the weather was really cold a really months back the car would not start at all until we managed to bump start it. All the while trying to get it going, it was making a noise like a pneumatic drill (battery?) but not starting. This was the same noise I had when trying to restart after cutting out.
Car has enough oil, is not overheating and when the AA man rescued me and restarted it the alternator and battery were reading 14. something so apparently fine. He had no idea what was going on and no codes could be found before getting it started as we had to move the car asap due to being in a dangerous place [emoji20]. No codes thrown up afterwards so he had a couple of theories but nothing set in stone saying that it would have to happen again in order to find the problem. He stated that it could be the alternator as that doesn't look like it has ever been changed (56 plate), or a connection problem from there to the battery, or the battery. Nothing definite to take to the garage though.
I'm currently using my partners *damn uncomfortable* focus and I miss my grande! Need to get it back on the road if anyone can help?
1.2 8v active if that helps! 56 plate as mentioned above.
On my way to work on Wednesday my car just cut out when changing from 5th to 4th gear (going uphill). I have done this journey many times and this has never happened before .
When the weather was really cold a really months back the car would not start at all until we managed to bump start it. All the while trying to get it going, it was making a noise like a pneumatic drill (battery?) but not starting. This was the same noise I had when trying to restart after cutting out.
Car has enough oil, is not overheating and when the AA man rescued me and restarted it the alternator and battery were reading 14. something so apparently fine. He had no idea what was going on and no codes could be found before getting it started as we had to move the car asap due to being in a dangerous place [emoji20]. No codes thrown up afterwards so he had a couple of theories but nothing set in stone saying that it would have to happen again in order to find the problem. He stated that it could be the alternator as that doesn't look like it has ever been changed (56 plate), or a connection problem from there to the battery, or the battery. Nothing definite to take to the garage though.
I'm currently using my partners *damn uncomfortable* focus and I miss my grande! Need to get it back on the road if anyone can help?
1.2 8v active if that helps! 56 plate as mentioned above.