gti Not starting!

[Richy_Rich]

Right,

I've had a search, and can't seem to find a answer to my issues!

Ive had a few problems with the car recently, mainly the battery!

But after the Fast show this weekend, a starting issue has arisen. At first it took a few attempts, then at towards end of sunday, it took even more attempts, untill just now. I sat there for 10mins trying to start it, but it just cranks and cranks and cranks.

I can't seem to hear the fuel pump prime, which i thought i could normally.

I'm not sure what could have caused this, but i did recently put in some red-ex for petrol cars, to clean as i had some odd running issues too.....

any answers would be very helpful!

Cheers
Rich

[rozovts]

is the engine turning over? Check your injectors plugs cuz less fuel might be cuming out of em, when u test em it shoots out fast, if not get diagnostics test on it mate..

[Richy_Rich]

Yer, it just keeps turning over, but not starting!

I can smell fuel, so maybe its not sparking.....how can I check this?

[gowen87]

whip the plugs out and earth them to something and while turning over check if its sparking.

[miamibluebaby]

get a multimeter on the fuel pump and see if its getting power? eliminate that first, then check sparks, coil, injectors etc

just a process of elimination from there