Hi Guys,
Story starts one day when it was very cold and I took a trip 25 minutes down the road. After shopping around the high-street I came back to the car (Fiat Punto 2004 MK2b Sporting 1.4) and it had since been snowing heavily and was even colder. When I started it up and the following lights appeared on the dash:
So that was around 2 weeks ago. Today I was driving it and when eating my McDonalds I had the stereo working, lights on, phone charging, iPod charging etc and no engine on which killed my battery, my bad! Fortunately my girlfriend's dad jump started us but as soon as we got the engine going again those same lights that appeared above showed their face again! Got it home, done the same as last time except now all the lights are out with the exception of the Engine Failure light.
We thought it might be battery related so we took a brand new Ford Torneo battery from the garage and hooked that up to the car instead just to test but we were experiencing exactly the same (the Torneo battery was fully charged).
Before I take it to Fiat and get shafted for a good £200+ does anyone here have any recommendations for us to try?
Cheers!:slayer:
Story starts one day when it was very cold and I took a trip 25 minutes down the road. After shopping around the high-street I came back to the car (Fiat Punto 2004 MK2b Sporting 1.4) and it had since been snowing heavily and was even colder. When I started it up and the following lights appeared on the dash:
- Hill Holder Failure
- ESP Failure
- Engine Failure
So that was around 2 weeks ago. Today I was driving it and when eating my McDonalds I had the stereo working, lights on, phone charging, iPod charging etc and no engine on which killed my battery, my bad! Fortunately my girlfriend's dad jump started us but as soon as we got the engine going again those same lights that appeared above showed their face again! Got it home, done the same as last time except now all the lights are out with the exception of the Engine Failure light.
We thought it might be battery related so we took a brand new Ford Torneo battery from the garage and hooked that up to the car instead just to test but we were experiencing exactly the same (the Torneo battery was fully charged).
Before I take it to Fiat and get shafted for a good £200+ does anyone here have any recommendations for us to try?
Cheers!:slayer: