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Help with renault laguna

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  • 21-08-2012 12:23pm
    #1
    cat_<3
    Registered Users Posts: 45 ✭


    hello,:D


    i need some help i have a renault laguna 1.6 sport 02 and i went to start it the other day and it wouldnt start. i pressed start and it just started clicking and random lights came on lasted for about a min then my battery went flat. i brought it to a garage and the guy couldnt find the problem. he thought something was draining the battery but couldnt find out what.:mad:
    has this happened to anyone else?:confused:

    please help thanks


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    Ronnie Beck
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,452 ✭✭✭Ronnie Beck


    Happens quite alot with them renaults. If the battery level drops its messes with the immobilizer. A new quality battery if the current one is old or a plug in charger might solve it.

    Charge the battery and stick it back in see if it starts.


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    cat_<3
    Registered Users Posts: 45 ✭cat_<3


    yeh the battery is new something is draining it but i dont know what:confused:


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    haulagebasher
    Closed Accounts Posts: 309 ✭✭haulagebasher


    To help track down what is draining your battery you could try this procedure. With everything switched off, disconnect the battery negative terminal and connect a multimeter set to ammeter between the battery and the disconnected lead. Note what current is flowing. There will always be something as immobiliser, clock and ecu will always draw some tiny current.Anyway then go to your fuse panel and in sequence, remove each fuse and check whether the current drops off. Do this for each circuit and if you find that one causes the current to drop, well that is the circuit that might have some kind of fault in it. I am not sure what standby current is typical of clocks and ecus though. This should at least narrow down the problem to a specific system.


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    vetec
    Registered Users Posts: 6 ✭vetec


    I had a similar problem I called <snip> and a chap came and fixed it he is cheap as well just 50 euro <snip@gmail.com>


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    Guy:Incognito
    Registered Users Posts: 38,247 ✭✭✭✭Guy:Incognito


    Presumably he checked the alternator is actually charging the battery and not knackered ?

    is the lights on warming buzzer working when you open the door?


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    biko
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    Please don't dig up old threads to promote a business, it doesn't look good.


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