Engine and electrics cut out

[danyalson]

rite story goes, i got my vtr bak on the road bout 3 days ago from it being sitting for about 3 months. ive done bout 100 miles since having it bak, but from just popping to the shop today, i was on the way back, pulled into my drive bout to park up and everything cuts out. Everything just dies, engine and electrics on dash and headunit.
I had the heater goin on full and the headunit cranked, but i dont have any subs (stripped), just door speakers and 6*9s.
Anyone have any ideas what the hell has just happened?? scared me a bit, cus im meant to be doin a drive to bournemouth in a week.
Had recent problems with battery. Had to get it recharged as it was dead. and it still seems a bit low as it turns for a bit longer starting up, but that cud be being paranoid, and the extreme cold.

Many help would be awesome cheers.
happy new year

[666]

make sure your battery terminals arent loose mate mine did this after a 15 min drive it was 1 of my terminals had come loose

[vtss]

rite story goes, i got my vtr bak on the road bout 3 days ago from it being sitting for about 3 months. ive done bout 100 miles since having it bak, but from just popping to the shop today, i was on the way back, pulled into my drive bout to park up and everything cuts out. Everything just dies, engine and electrics on dash and headunit.
I had the heater goin on full and the headunit cranked, but i dont have any subs (stripped), just door speakers and 6*9s.
Anyone have any ideas what the hell has just happened?? scared me a bit, cus im meant to be doin a drive to bournemouth in a week.
Had recent problems with battery. Had to get it recharged as it was dead. and it still seems a bit low as it turns for a bit longer starting up, but that cud be being paranoid, and the extreme cold.

Many help would be awesome cheers.
happy new year

ye and check all your earths.this happened mine for a while and the bad connections ended up blowing my alternator.i also put an extra earth strap from the body to the engine just to b safe.seems to have worked

[danyalson]

cheers for that, ill have a look at them tomoz. do you no where they are positioned on the car. their coming off the negative wire from the battery. arent they the only three
cheers

[vtss]

cheers for that, ill have a look at them tomoz. do you no where they are positioned on the car. their coming off the negative wire from the battery. arent they the only three
cheers

ye just trace them back from the battery.then just put an extra 1 from the gearbox to the body

[danyalson]

ok mate. any preferable wiring to be used.

[tomo2k8]

same thing happend to me mate i found the problem and its sorted it was loose teminals on top of the battery, i had to change the connectors for new ones and it works fine now, so try and get hold of some new connectors mite do the trick :y: