Technical URGENT, help needed with STILO 2001 1.6

[dizzienewheights]

Hi,

I am having major problems with my stilo. The battery died on the car, and now i am unable to start it at all, the engine tries to tick over but no start up. All the elecrtics are coming on and all the "lovely" dash board info "beeps" such as "ASR failure," "Car securtiy failure," and all others.

I am wondering whether the engine has now imobolised itself and is not letting me start it at all???

does anyone know of a cheap and effective way to get over this problem quickly??? all i need to do is start the motor and have her driving around to re-charge the battery. i do not believe its the alternator.

any help would be greatly appreciated

 

[Sparky1483]

Hi,

I am having major problems with my stilo. The battery died on the car, and now i am unable to start it at all, the engine tries to tick over but no start up. All the elecrtics are coming on and all the "lovely" dash board info "beeps" such as "ASR failure," "Car securtiy failure," and all others.

I am wondering whether the engine has now imobolised itself and is not letting me start it at all???

does anyone know of a cheap and effective way to get over this problem quickly??? all i need to do is start the motor and have her driving around to re-charge the battery. i do not believe its the alternator.

any help would be greatly appreciated

unless you bught a new battery, then that would be my 1st point of call, a dead battery will cause all sorts of problems,if you just tried to jump start a dead battery, then thats what will be casuing the warnings, a new battery should sort most of the problems

the stilos elcetrics are very complex and need a fully operational battery to work porpperly

 

[dizzienewheights]

Ok thanks alot, i shall try this. As i am on a budget, do you know where i can get hold of a cheap battery until i can afford a more decent one for the long term???

Also, how simple is it to fit the new battery in the stilo as the set-up looks very complex, not seen a car with so many outputs and fuses all over the battery etc???

 

[Sparky1483]

piece of cake mate, just take the positive and negative off the battery as normal, all the outputs are attatched to plastic plates, attatched to the poles, so it comes of as one.

try and get hold of a mates, familys battery that you know is working and charged and fit that 1st, saves spending on a battery, as that may not even be your problem, but is the simplest/cheapest task to do 1st

 

[Argonought]

As i am on a budget, do you know where i can get hold of a cheap battery until i can afford a more decent one for the long term???

Never consider fitting a cheap battery to a Stilo - it would b a complete waste of money :shakehead:

 

[Sparky1483]

Never consider fitting a cheap battery to a Stilo - it would b a complete waste of money :shakehead:

nope, never ever, still try a friends 1st though if you aint got enough to pay for a new one, or get a lone, take the battery off the other car though

 

[Davren]

If you do borrow a battery from another car, make sure the terminal posts are the same way round as your battery. Some batteries have the positive and negative posts at opposite ends making it very easy to connect the terminals the wrong way round.

If you connect the terminals the wrong way round, even for a fraction of a second, you are likely to give yourself much bigger problems than you have now.

Dave.

 

[dizzienewheights]

just fitted the new battery, a decent one, cost me 60 quid. but still the same problem, engine starting to tick over but not actually starting up??? any ideas guys???

 

[Sparky1483]

leave it on over night, and wait til the morning, a freinds did this and it took a few hours to right itself, turn the ignition a few times (on and off) without starting to let the computers talk to each other, and if the warnings start to go, the try and start.

coz if you tried to start it straight away the body computer may still be logging the faults, so give it chance to find and remove the faults itself, by letting it complete checks a few times

remember let it finsih its checks before trying anything, next step is ringing the breakdown people.

 

[dizzienewheights]

thanks for all your help.

i bought a Varta 12V 44ah battery, would you recommend this?

 

[Sparky1483]

44ah seems pretty low, sure mine was in the 70's, i could be wrong though

varta are good though

 

[Eddster]

My battery ran flat, we bump started the car, it started ok (2nd gear, ignition on!!). But almost every fault on the dash came up, so drove it home, called the AA, they reset all the errors, since which it has been fine, I did not need a new battery as it re-charged itself through driving. I have disconnected the battery to reset the MAP Sensor fault and I had to remove not just both terminals but also two screws (phillips) which are in the box attached to the positive terminal, they are either end of a RED plastic thing (not sure what its purpose is) about 2 inches apart.

Hope this helps.