marcparry

All the lights go out and I checked the boot one too. Can't here anyhting from the cooling fan and the radio is the standard fitted one. The only thing I had fitted was a parrot bluetooth kit but that was in for over 12 months before problems started. i have since removed this incase that was causing the problems. I will check the earth connections tomorrow to see if i can see anything causing problems there. If not electricians I guess ...

Recently I seem to be having issues with my battery draining very fast but only occassionally. For example: I drove it Monday morning then left it to sit until wednesday evening when I went away. Returned wednesday and it started fine first time. Tried to start it thursday morning, completely dead! This has now happened 3 times on 2 different batteries. Now onto my third battery and I'd like to find the problem before it happens again. Any ideas where to start looking or would it be best to call an autoelectrician straight away?

Sorry this reply took some time but I didn't check. It was a loose seal that was allowing some of the exhaust gases escape into the engine. On a cold morning you coulkd see this coming from the engine block. It was loosing power too because of this.

Will this damage the car if not sorted quickly or is it more just an annoying noise??

I hope someone can help with this out there because it is really begining to get annoying...... :D For about the past year or so my C3 (exclusive 1.4HDI 02) has been making a strange hissing/tapping/ticking type of noise from somewhere in the engine, it seems to be coming from the back right side of the engine as you look at it behind the main block. This has progressively got worse and mainly over this past weekend seemed to get even worse. This noise also follows the revs of the engine. There has always been a faint chemically/exhaust gas type of smell coming through into the car. Previous questions to normally been met with the answer "if its not effecting performance don't worry" I had the EGR valve replaced in May and asked the mechanic to have a look around then but unfortunately he couldn't put his finger on anything. Since then it has been for an MOT, which it passed, but 2 different mechanics there couldn't pinpoint anything either. I have noticed over the past few months that it does not seem to be running as warm as it used to (don't know if this would have any effect). I used to get 3 lights on the dashboard temp gauge pretty much all the time but now I only ever seem to get 2 apart from the odd occasion. I do mainly motorway miles so it should have ample time to warm up. Looking through the forum there are a couple of similar posts so hopefully someone can give me some suggestions to take to my mechanic? I wasn't sure whether it could be the injectors having diesel in or something connected to the air con as this has developed a strange smell (although not too sure if it needs re-gassing). I am still getting a decent fuel econ (69-72 though driven a little gingerly) so not I'm not worrying there but wouldn't like it to turn out to be something major? Thanks in anticipation :( Marc