Recent content by Garfeild

Hi all, I'm in the process of building a single skin block garage in the garden, it's up to wall plate height and I'm doing that tomorrow. It's 6m X 4m and the joists will be running side to side, so 4m span I'm doing a flat roof with 2" X 6" joists @ 400mm centres. The question is about the...

Auto electrician said I've got a broken or faulty cable on the feed into the fuse box under the dash, he said he's got it working now (I'm still at work at the moment) Could be a nightmare as access to that fuse board is difficult to say the least. Anyone ever removed a dash on one of these?

I did try the ignition key waggling trick, but still no joy, it does seem to match with a possible relay going now gone as Harry said above. I’ve booked an auto spark to have a look tomorrow I can’t mess around any longer, I need it sorting. I’ll post back with what the problem was, assuming he...

It doesn’t run with the ignition off, I didn’t say that.

Forgot to say, all fuses have been checked ok, Earth to bodywork cleaned as well. Battery isn’t flat as the car starts, I just have problem of all the components not working, I’m thinking I need to get it looked at properly as I need it for work.

The car starts and runs ok, battery connections have been cleaned, all ok, still same problem no dash, no interior lights no power steering, can’t get it out of park. Battery voltage is 12.8v without engine running.

Ok, so I have a different problem this morning, the car worked perfectly yesterday when I went shopping, but I’ve gone out this morning to start doing my checks, and, the car unlocked ok, but it’s gone straight into it’s fault, no power inside the car, no dash, no radio etc etc, like a fuse has...

I suspect the alternator is original, it certainly doesn’t look new that’s for sure, I don’t know if there’s a date stamp on the battery either, and to cap it all my old multimeter has died as well FFS I’ll still clean everything I can find at the weekend, and buy a new meter. Thanks for your help

No problem today bad weather, lights wipers etc on on way home, car behaved perfectly, how am I going to find out what’s causing the fault if it’s so intermittent?

I’ll have to rig up a couple of wires into the cabin and connect the meter to them, I may not be able to get this done until the weekend, I was going to check all the Earth connections I could find, clean the battery terminals, etc. So I’ll have to report back. Would the speedo fault cause all...

Yes it’s a digital speedo, and rev counter all went off. engine carried on running and headlights stayed on, no dash lights, including speedo etc, no interior lights, no brake lights or indicators. Don’t know how old the battery is, I got the car about 3 months ago, but it’s not been used too...

Would that only show after the car had been driven for a while though? I would have thought that would show intermittent yes but could be after it’s done 300 yards or 30 miles, its never done it on a short journey my drive to work is about 30 miles

Hi all I had a strange electrical fault on my 2002 Yaris 1.3 auto, id just driven home and about 100 yards from my house, I had an electrical failure, the car kept on running but all the dash lights, radio, auto gearbox indicator lights, brake lights , went out, and the power steering stopped...

If you shut off the street stopcock and the house stopcock, you will not lose all the water in the accumulator, there will only be a little bit in the pipe between the two valves, which is very little, then just relay the pipe between the two, job done.

I used to do this years ago when working for the water company, 10 pm until 4 am, checking for meters turning and using a listening stick “sounding” To find the noise of a water leak. Good old days.