the range refused to start today, i left for work in my van and 2 hours later got a phone call from the ball and chain, that the stupid car wont start, when she puts the key in to start the car the steering column clicks repeatedly like a relay or something, so i talked her through how to check the battery voltage with a multimeter and its apparantly 12.73v and the battery is only 2 months old, anybody any ideas so i dont get an earfull when i get home, it was my idea to buy the range, she wanted an s-max, any help appreciated 2002 td6 vogue, 06 supercharged facelift

Try the spare key - advice not based on experience or knowledge, but worth ruling the key out. 
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she tried that first 2002 td6 vogue, 06 supercharged facelift

still sounds like the battery...can you use jump leads and see if that makes a difference.. ... - .- -.




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When u go to crank over the engine see what the reading on the battery is then, a mate of mine has a disco and he fit a new batt to it but he had been sold the wrong one! Batt read approx 12v but on crank went down to 5v!!

Had something similar when i first got my TD6 turned out to be a faulty injector. Could be worth a check. 


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Darren,

Check your battery amp hours, I think it should be 110AH (amp/hour), I recently purchased a battery for mine, a lot of the independent motor factors list the RR as having a 90Ah battery fitted which as far as I remember is incorrect.

In fact a lot of factors told me that 90 a/h would do anyway, maybe so in perfect conditions, but what about in the middle of winter with every heater running.

Just a thought.

Hope this helps,

Stephen

stephen is correct, 110 amphrs with a 920 crank [td6] ... - .- -.




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so fitted another new battery 110Ah 900a and still the same problem, when the key is placed into ignition switch the steering lock repeatedly clicks on and off and the key wont turn at all, could it be the lock itself or the transponder ring just above the ign lock or something else ? its doin my head in and the missus too  2002 td6 vogue, 06 supercharged facelift

darren. i sure i read somewhere that there are mechanics that get stuck and the key wont turn, try taking the console panel of and use a screwdriver to move it.. ... - .- -.




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the steering lock or ign switch ? 2002 td6 vogue, 06 supercharged facelift

I had a similar fault in a BMW E38 (7 Series). It turned out to be the transponder from the key, or rather the unit in the steering column which receives the code from the transponder.

You probably need to attach an OBD2 reader to get a fault code, better than guesses and replacing more components based on guesswork.

If not the transponder system it's probably the switch in the gearbox which recognises that the car is in park. Try shifting the gearstick a few times, you could also try it in neutral.

Basically if you're getting nothing, it's probably something which immobilises the car, i.e. transponder system or gearstick. Particularly since you have a TD6, if it was a V8 then it wouldn't even try to crank if you were low on battery, but since the TD6 doesn't have the auto ignition, I would assume it would try to crank if it was just low on battery. 2012 SDV8 Vogue SE

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cant get the gearstick to move, is there a release mechanism somewhere ? 2002 td6 vogue, 06 supercharged facelift

darrenmax wrote:

the steering lock or ign switch ?

darrenmax wrote:

cant get the gearstick to move, is there a release mechanism somewhere ?