It's a D4 you can re latch them but you need to remove the epb module to do it. You can also repair them. The fuel gauge could be a number of things the sender units do fail. If it reads empty it usually goes into safe mode and stops the engine...

Or use a solar panel and charge controller to keep the battery topped up as I do with all my vehicles.

As mentioned no battery set up on the 2005 car but 40 days without use will kill it stone dead. You mite get away with 3 weeks even then special programmes will be off until it reached full charge. Disconnect the battery next time and lock it...

No battery management on 2005 and that year is not set up for AGM batteries best stick to lead acid.

Just locking it at the crank is not enough for this engine I suggest you look at LRTIME on the tube for more info about correct timing on this engine. The main concern is how and why the timing jumped. I'm afraid that sort of failure usually ends...

Buy the gap tool

GAP is about £60 to add extra VINs from memory. Does most of what I wanted but does struggle with some things. Programming keys for one. Also doesnt seem to read module info right on my 06 Vogue. Whether this is right or not I don't know. For...