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Bottle Of ground nut oil from the supermarket and put that on with a rag after you have cleaned them with an all purpose cleaner or wd40. Brings them up lovely and is cheap!

Well its back on charge now but will try that in the morning. Cheers.

No, I'll let the mechanic know tomorrow as I assume you have to lift the fusebox to test the relays and thats not something i'm confident doing. I fi keep this car i think i need a basic auto electrics course at an evening college!

Sorry when i said connected i meant the battery terminal connected not the charger and that was the resulting voltage after a few hours of standing still. I disconnected it again, the clicking noise stopped and the voltage then read 11.2v immediately after without charging, so the readings are...

Well i give up for today, couldn't get it going to take to Halfords so will just charge it again overnight. Its been connected for a few hours and current reading is flickering between 5.11v and 8.2v while relay is clicking under the engine fusebox. Thanks for everyone's suggestions so far...

I do have cover but got an elec lined up to have it tomorrow night. I was going to get it going and go up to Halfords for a quick check over the battery.

There was a considerable spark but don't know about an arc. There is a 10A setting on the meter. Just having EKA troubles and had to disconnect it again to shut the alarm off (sunday morning noise!) .

Well it was charged up again last night to 12.81v, at 9am this morning it is reading 12.41v and i left the negative terminal disconnected all night. I assume the car couldn't have taken the power with only positive connected could it? So although it hasn't dropped drastically am i right in...

The Halfords power pack i have is as useful as an ashtray on a motorbike so I'm woindering what you guys use? What sort of heavy duty packs have people successfully used on these big engines. What spec is a minimum. Looked at some Clarke/Draper and Ring ones on ebay but not much choice.

Well that reading was correct I think, tried on two different meters. The shine of buying this car has quickly drained away i can tell you, i have no confidence in it when it is running despite its great condition and history, if someone wanted it now i would snap their hands off! So much for...

battery is fine yes thanks. Been on charge for an hour with the neg lead off and now reading 12.2v. Would it come back up to that level so quick? Only using a CTEK 3600 to charge.

Done it again! Battery was 11.7v after starting the car/turning it off an hour ago and was 13.7v while running. Less than an hour later of leaving the negative terminal attached again and on trickle charge the battery reads 5.11v, totally dead. So its back on charge again now with the neg...

Fully charged this morning and is now reading 13.7v cold and 14.7v running and same with the headlights. Mate last night left his multimeter but don't know how to use this to read drain, but it started fine this morning so am going to leave it all day and see later this afternoon if anything...

I know and I appreciate the offer thank you. Thought there was a tongue in cheek aspect too though. Cheers.

Funny :) i'm hoping that is within my capabilities:D

If that is the fix then shoot me now! :mil36: :hysterically_laughi I can just about wire a plug! Been reading about rf receivers on here for the last hour. I need a glass of Jamiesons now or two or three.

Well the electrician has just been and the car started fine once i put the negative lead on. battery is showing 12.71 volts when cold and 14. 5 i think when running. When locked up and the alarm set it was reading only 0.6 amp drain he said and all that is perfect. So not the alternator or the...

I Wouldn't know about the rf receiver, is there a way to check?

Pattern seems to be that it will start on its own within 30 mins or so but leave it longer than an hour and it won't. Got a guy coming to have a quick test of a few things later so I'll mention all your suggestions but he'll only have time to possibly diagnose, will have to ring someone else...

The cable looks intact inside and sadly i don't know where to start with checking earthing point etc so I'll have to bite the bullet and see if I can get an auto elec to look at this weekend. Don't want to leave until next week really. If i did have an earth problem would that be removed by...