Vauxhall Astra 1.7 diesel - fine yesterday, dead today!

Daveo1983 · 25 August 2015 at 9:00AM

Just a moan more than anything else.

Started like a dream yesterday, no problems, no worries, nothing.
This morning, key in, waited for the coil symbol to turn off (approx half a second, as usual), turned the key - no turn over at all.
Fed up with this driving malarky.
:mad::mad::mad::mad::mad:

Stevie_Palimo · 25 August 2015 at 9:06AM

Have you considered buying a horse then ?

Daveo1983 · 25 August 2015 at 9:16AM

Don't tempt me. After it had dropped dead, I could eat like a king for a month!

Ebe_Scrooge · 25 August 2015 at 9:50AM

Starter motor ? Dead battery ( just enough juice left to power the glow plugs but not enough to turn the engine ? ) - try some jump leads.

Daveo1983 · 25 August 2015 at 11:00AM

Hey Ebe, thanks for the tips. More a pain in the you-know-where - hour and a half walk into work this morning. Happy Dave....

colino · 25 August 2015 at 11:35AM

Have you tried jumping it? Modern batteries tend to just fail instead of the good old days (and short lived ones!) that generally lost power over time before completely letting you down.