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I have what I think may be a battery problem, although it could be related to my dodgy alternator. Here are the symptoms:
The car mostly starts fine. When it starts, the starter motor doesn’t make that pained sound that you hear when the battery is going flat, it turns fine.
However, occasionally (and now more often, hence my post), as I turn the key in the ignition, I just hear a click. Not the machine gun clicks that you get when there isn’t enough juice to turn the starter, just a single click. If I try a number of times, I can get the starter to turn over pretty well and the RR starts.
I have a voltmeter mounted on the dash, with the ignition on, but the engine not running, this reports around 11- 12 volts. When the engine is running I see between 13- 13.5 volts.
Any idea what is going on here?
The car mostly starts fine. When it starts, the starter motor doesn’t make that pained sound that you hear when the battery is going flat, it turns fine.
However, occasionally (and now more often, hence my post), as I turn the key in the ignition, I just hear a click. Not the machine gun clicks that you get when there isn’t enough juice to turn the starter, just a single click. If I try a number of times, I can get the starter to turn over pretty well and the RR starts.
I have a voltmeter mounted on the dash, with the ignition on, but the engine not running, this reports around 11- 12 volts. When the engine is running I see between 13- 13.5 volts.
Any idea what is going on here?