Sport central locking clicking when car unlocked

ian mitchell · Monday at 22:05

Hi haven`t posted for a while but hope somebody can help please, bought a 58 plate 2.7 sport before christmas and had no problems until last week
when if i left the car unlocked at work when i went to start it. it would turn over really sluggish. but if i locked it ,it was fine .so last night i forgot to lock it on my drive and this morning wouldn`t start. when we had the snow it turned over fine, now when you sit in the car you can hear both passenger door locks faintly clicking until it is locked and then it stops. anybody had this problem before. any advice very much appreciated .

kds · Monday at 23:56

First port of call would be battery I think.

ian mitchell · Monday at 23:58

kds said:
First port of call would be battery I think.

cheers will do.

Mark Piercy · Tuesday at 05:28

Do you ever have the indicators flashing with a no start situation?

gstuart · Tuesday at 09:05

Plus 1 to the battery , should see a min of 12.6 Vdc with the engine off and around 14.5Vdc with it running

Indeed when it’s locked the modules will go into a sleep state after 30 x mins , therefore reduce the battery draining

Unless there’s a parasitic drain where something isn’t turning off

Need to also ensure the battery terminals and earths are all ok

Hope that also helps

ian mitchell · Tuesday at 21:05

gstuart said:
Plus 1 to the battery , should see a min of 12.6 Vdc with the engine off and around 14.5Vdc with it running

Indeed when it’s locked the modules will go into a sleep state after 30 x mins , therefore reduce the battery draining

Unless there’s a parasitic drain where something isn’t turning off

Need to also ensure the battery terminals and earths are all ok

Hope that also helps

thanks that does help ,electrics are like my nemesis, i have had the battery on charge at work today,for around nine hours
shows around 14.6 when running and 12.4 when not,i will see what its like at the weekend, and if it`s dropped
i will just put a new battery on. but thanks again for everybodys help very much appreciated.
and i need to learn more on auto electrics.

ian mitchell · Tuesday at 21:06

Mark Piercy said:
Do you ever have the indicators flashing with a no start situation?

no, but it has blown the side light bulbs.

Datatek · Wednesday at 08:00

ian mitchell said:
thanks that does help ,electrics are like my nemesis, i have had the battery on charge at work today,for around nine hours
shows around 14.6 when running and 12.4 when not,i will see what its like at the weekend, and if it`s dropped
i will just put a new battery on. but thanks again for everybodys help very much appreciated.
and i need to learn more on auto electrics.

Make sure you fully charge your new battery before fitting it.

ian mitchell · Wednesday at 22:11

Datatek said:
Make sure you fully charge your new battery before fitting it.

ok, will do cheers.

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