Hi
Winter here inSweden when I noticed a starting problem.
When it was very cold it didn't start, not even cranked the engine. So I thought it was the battery which was rather old. The strange things was that it didn't even cranked the engine with some help from another car battery with the engine running on that car. Not even a change in the engine speed of the other car. As if it didn't have contact. After checking contact with no results, I gave up.
I warmed up the engine with a electrical cable. Then it started right away. I had a repair shop checking the battery and charging. As I thought, the battery was bad, so I changed that. The charging etc was okej though.
Next day, still cold outside, it started, but on first on the third heavy crank. It didn't seem right. The car repair shop agreed with me, but only had time to check the obvious things and didnät find anything. They just suggested that something else put to much load on the electrical system while starting the engine.
Now we had a few degrees above zero, but when starting the car today it still paused before cranking heavy and slow before starting. Or almost not starting.
Does anyone know where I can start investigating? Sorry for my bad English.
It's a Nissan Micra 2004 in good condition
Winter here inSweden when I noticed a starting problem.
When it was very cold it didn't start, not even cranked the engine. So I thought it was the battery which was rather old. The strange things was that it didn't even cranked the engine with some help from another car battery with the engine running on that car. Not even a change in the engine speed of the other car. As if it didn't have contact. After checking contact with no results, I gave up.
I warmed up the engine with a electrical cable. Then it started right away. I had a repair shop checking the battery and charging. As I thought, the battery was bad, so I changed that. The charging etc was okej though.
Next day, still cold outside, it started, but on first on the third heavy crank. It didn't seem right. The car repair shop agreed with me, but only had time to check the obvious things and didnät find anything. They just suggested that something else put to much load on the electrical system while starting the engine.
Now we had a few degrees above zero, but when starting the car today it still paused before cranking heavy and slow before starting. Or almost not starting.
Does anyone know where I can start investigating? Sorry for my bad English.
It's a Nissan Micra 2004 in good condition