For Sale Less modern laguna.. For SALE! Terrible price, £200, you have until monday at 9am to stake a claim!

[Kiltox]

How have you broken it already?!

 

Sounds like a dead battery to me

[beko1987]

Started now, off to work!

[SiC]

If starting causes the dash to flicker and parking brake fault comes up with out even touching it, then it's almost certainly the battery. Might get a few other dash lights coming up until it's got a bit of charge in it and it's restarted. All modern cars go a bit bonkers with a flat battery. Mine threw up the EML for low battery and missing devices on the CAN bus when the battery was starting to get a bit weak and unused for a week or two in the winter.

 

Probably all the fiddling done yesterday has drained the battery down. Is the battery before your ownership?

[Kiltox]

Before my ownership yeah - never had any starting issues tho

[Guest Hooli]

Told ya not to fix the minor bits.

[SiC]

Flat battery that was too flat to be able to drive the glow plugs I reckon.

 

At least it appears to be going now...

[SiC]

In fact, was it the radio power connections being swapped around, so it was being powered on all night?

[Guest Hooli]

From memory on an ISO adaptor (which the wiring looked like in the pic) isn't yellow perm live & red switched live?

[r.welfare]

Have a go cleaning the battery connections if it's not the radio connectors causing a drain. My Espace did exactly the same thing a couple of weeks back - parking brake fault followed by dead start button. Recovery bloke noted earth lead was very hot. Cleaned it all up plus earth to inner wing, was then fine, but bought a new battery anyway (mainly because the existing one on my car was too small).

[paulscavalier]

Nick the xantias battery if its better?

[beko1987]

I think all my fiddling yesterday killed it, I pushed most of the buttons!

 

I didn't change the radio live and switched live it turns off with the car off so hopefully it's not that. It drove to work fine, so I'll see if it starts to get home. I did look at battery swapping, but the xantia battery is 60ah,gooner is 80. If it is fine for the next 2 weeks I'll wait for ecp to have a weekend 'sale' and buy a new one.

 

Jump leads are in the boot. Didn't feel any wires

[beko1987]

On the plus side, the traffic was fucking awful this morning, having an auto is the right choice!

[chaseracer]

Wot is the crossing point from 'non giffer' to 'giffer'.  Is it an age related thing or is it brought on by bumper corner scrapes or the driving of a certain make and model car ?

 

All of the above, or none, or some, depending.

[The Moog]

Welcome to the wonderful world of Renaults! 

 

I have learnt that my Vel Satis has openy pockets like yours.  

[beko1987]

Already been told off on the renner forum..

 

DONT ASK TECHNICAL QUESTIONS IN YOUR INTRO POST...

 

I wasn't you twat, I was just listing things. Apparently saying stuff vaguley technical is frowned upon in the wrong forum

[beko1987]

Thinking about it, Xantia had a new battery with Bub, but it's 60ah. Gooner's battery is 80mah, ECP show me a 70ah battery.

 

Would it be stupid to fit a good 60ah battery to the gooner, or should I just buy a new one?

[Sigmund Fraud]

Good to see that there's at least one Laguna II on here that is defending the model's hard-earned reputation for random electrical faults !

[beko1987]

Good to see that there's at least one Laguna II on here that is defending the model's hard-earned reputation for random electrical faults !

Hopefully not for long though, I can deal with just needing a battery!

[SiC]

The current battery in the Laguna might not be able to store 80Ah of energy anyway.

[Kiltox]

Do you have a battery charger? I'd charge the battery and then STOP FUCKING AROUND WITH THE WIRING

[oldcars]

This looks class, love a bit of fake wood. Hope you get the polisher on it bet it would come up nice.

[beko1987]

Do you have a battery charger? I'd charge the battery and then STOP FUCKING AROUND WITH THE WIRING

I think it was more pushing buttons and doing stuff without the engine on for a few hours that caused the problem, all I've done wiring wise so far is plug the live for the radio back in!

[SiC]

This looks class, love a bit of fake wood. Hope you get the polisher on it bet it would come up nice.

It's plastic unfortunately, not real wood. I was tempted to change it in mine, but over-ruled by AS.

[oldcars]

It's plastic unfortunately, not real wood. I was tempted to change it in mine, but over-ruled by AS.

Project drive gooner 

[Supernaut]

I told you s- ...ah, whatever. This is hilarious.

 

Until my stupid ebay purchase fails to get me home from Manchester at the weekend.

[beko1987]

I told you s- ...ah, whatever. This is hilarious.

 

Until my stupid ebay purchase fails to get me home from Manchester at the weekend.

This is why I never laugh at anyone on here with car issues, nor at people stuck on the hard shoulder. I've had it happen before, it could happen at any time!

[beko1987]

It works! Been watching the car park all day waiting for some poor fool to take their car out to get lunch, just been and fetched it and it fired up straight away!

 

It works the car park barrier now, the xantia never did, I put it down to the angle of the numberplate, Gareths X reg crv works it so it can't be the format (we used to own the oldest cars, now it's just him...)

 

They keycard also works very well in my wallet in my coat pocket... Probably wont stay there for long though as I usually keep it in my back pocket, and I can imagine that being a bad idea if I sit my fat arse on it too much...

[beko1987]

Oh and the drivers mirror did move, I saw it! Need to find out how to reset the memory shizzle. Passenger one did nothing, going to wedge it up with something to stop the glass dropping!

[Guest Hooli]

 I usually keep it in my back pocket, and I can imagine that being a bad idea if I sit my fat arse on it too much...

 

Yes don't do that...

 

The circuit board inside the card is only half the length of the card & the rest is the battery holder. If you flex the card too much the battery connections snap where they join the board, I had to fix the replacement card I got with all the ECUs. They are a bit of a bugger to open without cutting your fingers apart.

 

[paulscavalier]

Already been told off on the renner forum..

 

DONT ASK TECHNICAL QUESTIONS IN YOUR INTRO POST...

 

I wasn't you twat, I was just listing things. Apparently saying stuff vaguley technical is frowned upon in the wrong forum

Isn't that one of the reasons you join a forum? You buy a new car and you need a point in the right direction to fix bits find out how other people fixed the bits you want to fix?