Starting trouble - can you help?

I'm having trouble starting my Ford Focus in the mornings. I've changed the battery, but it sounds like the engine is struggling to turn over. However, once it has started (jump leads), it will start every...

MPG affected by changing my battery?

I own a Ford Focus 05 1.6 90bhp, I recently changed the battery and mpg has risen via EMC can I get it back to the lower figure by reconecting battery again, or is it a dealer issue. Also do you know if...

Battery operators

I recently called a well-known breakdown assistance service for help. My car had been left with lights on which had flattened the battery. The patrolman quickly started the car with a battery booster,...

Deal. Or no deal?

A Range Rover, dealer is advertising new Diesel Range Rover 4.4 TD V.8, cash price: £68,995, deposit: £41,436, pay after 24 months £27,549, or give the car back to the dealer. Rate of interest is 0%. This...

Starter motor problem?

I have a new battery (ten months old) but am having problems turning the engine over via the starter motor. When I turn the engine over, it feels and sounds as though the battery is going flat, and it...

Is Rover or battery maker Delphi responsible for battery failure after nine years?

Does this win the prize for the most optimistic claim for product failure? Last week my dealer-maintained Rover 75's original manufacturer-fitted battery failed after barely nine and a half years. Is Rover...

Assault on battery

I'm confused with all the data one reads in the newspaper regarding battery driven cars. These are the facts that I have read. Are they correct? 1.Price £20,000 to £30,000 2.To renew batteries £8,000...

Current pun

I have a 2000X BMW 530D estate, which my father had owned from nearly new. Over the past 8 months it has developed an intermittent battery drain fault and I was hoping you may have some clues about what...

Lies, damn lies and static tests

Regarding battery leakdowns, I have a friend who is a modern auto electrician, by which I mean he has all the latest kit code readers, etc., but for a suspect earth he does the following: Connect a multi...

Mothballing a MINI

We live in Hong Kong but spend 4-5 weeks each summer in the UK. My wife bought a 2005 Mini Cooper (not the 'S' model) Automatic 1,598cc with 47,000 km on the clock earlier this year (trouble free so far,...