75ZT CommunityA social community of enthusiasts, owners, appreciators and collectors. With expert knowledge of all things from MG to Rover and beyond.2018-05-09T18:46:54+00:00https://www.75ztcommunity.co.uk/feed.php?f=27&t=9535&mode2018-05-09T18:46:54+00:002018-05-09T18:46:54+00:00https://www.75ztcommunity.co.uk/viewtopic.php?t=9535&p=85012#p85012
]]>2018-05-09T18:33:02+00:002018-05-09T18:33:02+00:00https://www.75ztcommunity.co.uk/viewtopic.php?t=9535&p=85011#p85011 I had one from another company with similar issues the first battery tester they used said it was fine but I was insistent so they used a different tester which said it was faulty so it was changed and all ok again
]]>2018-05-03T09:22:08+00:002018-05-03T09:22:08+00:00https://www.75ztcommunity.co.uk/viewtopic.php?t=9535&p=85007#p85007 had it tested at my local garage, seems it was not very good under load.. took it back to ECP who tested it again with a different device and their result was 64% efficiency, and would not change it as it has to under 60% . To be fair its been alright ever since, but keeping an eye on it ..
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]]>2018-04-22T09:29:12+00:002018-04-22T09:29:12+00:00https://www.75ztcommunity.co.uk/viewtopic.php?t=9535&p=84993#p84993 Like you say, rather than a gentle curve downwards they now just drop off a cliff edge within hours.
The other thing is the way the onboard computer now complains when you do anything, and disconnecting the battery requires nerves of steel, you just dont know WHAT is going to happen when you power back up. In the old days the worst that could happen was you had to reenter the radio code.
40 years at the practical end of IT taught me Occams Razor - the simplest solution is the best, the simplests explanation is the most likely. Look at the old Mk 2 Sierras, for example, back in the 80's - they had the old reliable, simple, 2.0L Pinto engine, you could fix anything on them with literally and handful of tools from Halfords. The greatest tribute o the fixability of the Sierra was when my mates girlfriend broke down at a motorway services in his Sierra, he got her to change the head gasket with the tools in the boot, talking her thru it over the phone, she got home ok. She was an amazing girl, but it was such a simple car to fix.
You could set the points timing by ear - you just found the two extreme points rotating the distributor where it started to cough, took it back to the middle point then three degrees before TDC was about 1/8" left rotation from that point. You just listened to the engine, they were never too fussy.
Theres alomost nothing on a modern car you can fiddle with, nothing to adjust, unless you have a laptop plugged into it, and the right software.
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]]>2018-04-22T07:56:26+00:002018-04-22T07:56:26+00:00https://www.75ztcommunity.co.uk/viewtopic.php?t=9535&p=84991#p84991 When we had a 200 coupe, my wife came back from work and parked up and in the morning battery was dead. Charged it up and it lasted another day before giving up. Put a new battery on it and it was still working 6 months later when we sold it.
I do think that if they get a cell issue (and it only needs to be on 1 cell) then they can just fail. It's all to do with the chemistry of the battery - or it could just be magic
]]>2018-04-21T18:55:06+00:002018-04-21T18:55:06+00:00https://www.75ztcommunity.co.uk/viewtopic.php?t=9535&p=84990#p84990 Srsly. In the past, u can tell when a battery is failing, the car gets harder and harder to start, and if u turn on the lights and wipers, and crank it, the lights will dim and the washers stop or stall. This did neither. It went from good to dead in 48 hours, just sitting their.
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oldfart wrote: Or am I being paranoid?
Possibly.... but probably nothing to do with the car or battery. Batteries can just fail - I've had a couple do that for no reason.
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