Immobiliser Light Problem Major!

12th April 2007, 17:43

Right, yesterday i had a great day, trying to fit a manifold, the manifold was touching an earth point under car, and then was resting up the top by the head, well it slipped from where it was resting, and hit the alternator live, which short, fucked the whole wire, so i had to go about and strip all the wires and get the wire out, then replaced it, sorted all the rest of the wires whilst i was at it.

Now its all sorted now, alternator works as far as i know (is there a way to check?) and the battery is working, but when putting the key in the ignition, the imobiliser light flashes, the car wont start and the fuel gauge is going from full to empty, full to empty then just sits on empty, but no light, it seems that somethings blocking the fuel?

Now after looking at all kinds of things im thinking its down to the imobiliser that the car wont start, would this cause the car not to start? and the fuel gauge to be acting dodgy?

If not can you think of anything else that could be causing this?

The engine trys to start, it ticks over, the fuel pump is working, you can hear it prime, ive tried another battery on it, not yet tried bump or jump start just figured if the other battery doesnt work, there isnt a problem with the battery.

Ment to be taking the car down south with me on Sunday at the moment it doesnt look that way...

12th April 2007, 17:45

Push the big red button!

12th April 2007, 17:47

Missed that out, ive also tried the fuel cut off switch nothing

12th April 2007, 17:50

Doh unsure then mate.

I know how you feel though this happend to me once and i just couldnt figure out what the hell it was, but then some one said push the big red button and it worked

Hope you find it....

12th April 2007, 17:52

gona go push it again, does that effect the imobiliser?

12th April 2007, 18:00

Not sure i dont think so though?

When i pushed mine it didnt work first time so i took it apart and reconnected it then pushed it again and it worked.

Make sure you push it hard!

12th April 2007, 18:04

tried no luck, cant find my hand book to see if it says anything about resetting the standard imobiliser

12th April 2007, 18:28

Just had a look through mine cant find anything about it?

Its just a matter of retracing your steps mate....

12th April 2007, 18:30

Maybe an engine reset might do it?

12th April 2007, 18:34

Im out of ideas man, but the flashing immobiliser needs to be focused on.

12th April 2007, 18:46

i cant retrace my steps!

must be something to do with the light flashing but handbook says nothing

12th April 2007, 18:48

Leave the battery disconnected for a while?

12th April 2007, 18:53

been off for a while

12th April 2007, 18:54

possible burnt out imobilser

12th April 2007, 18:57

does anyone know if the imobiliser would cause the car not to start and for it to appear that there isnt any fuel?

12th April 2007, 18:59

yeah thats the point of imobilser so it doesnt start the car

not sure on the fuel situation though

12th April 2007, 19:48

have you messed about with the key, on my old vtr it was a problem with the transponder in the key what gets recongised by the ignition. mine used to be very annoying at petrol stations etc because it would take ages till it reconised it!

12th April 2007, 20:11

nah done nothing with key, batterys been disconnected for a while now, gona go check it, looks like its a trip to citroen tomorrow, il ask my mam to put house up for sale to fund it...

12th April 2007, 20:57

sounds like its fried something else down the line. sounds canny expensive

12th April 2007, 21:00

aye dont i know it, hope its not the ecu...

12th April 2007, 21:15

Is there anything in the Haynes manual with regards to this?

Presume you have probably looked through it already.

12th April 2007, 21:42

me and ad did today

12th April 2007, 22:55

haynes was incredibly useful...

'check that you have got fuel in the car'

oh shit thats why it didnt start, silly me...

let us know how you get on tomorrow

12th April 2007, 23:59

im going for fried ecu or fried something on imobilser

13th April 2007, 09:16

an after thought i had last night, sounds simple but easy over looked have you checked the two fuse boxes in the bay and the one in the car?

13th April 2007, 09:22

yeah Scott checked all them

13th April 2007, 09:24

*ignore*

13th April 2007, 09:32

*try to*

13th April 2007, 09:38

btw, is it a raceland manifold you have fitted?

13th April 2007, 10:55

gmc 4-1

13th April 2007, 17:32

Have you sorted it yet?

13th April 2007, 19:30

mine is doin the same my ecu is in the garage now gettin unlocked hope that works
its a bit late now but where is this red button

13th April 2007, 19:34

Quote:

Originally Posted by dave1

mine is doin the same my ecu is in the garage now gettin unlocked hope that works
its a bit late now but where is this red button

top right hand corner

13th April 2007, 19:38

its in, wiring fault supposedly

not back yet gona go up 2moro and harass them some more

13th April 2007, 19:39

just had a look and so it is thanks mate

14th April 2007, 00:11

big red button is just for an impact to the car, it drops a ball bearing into fuel line. when you press the button a magnet picks the ball bearing back up out of the way and allows full flow again

sounds like you have fried something important matt.

should always disconnect the battery when your messing about

i had to learn the hard way to mate.

hope you get it sorted bud.

14th April 2007, 09:31

'i done a boz'

thats what i told citroen. they looked at me strange, i was like saxp ftw.

They didnt have a clue.

Hopefully on there way to fixing it...

16th April 2007, 10:46

mines in with the same problem dude.
Citroen Ashford, wheres yours?

16th April 2007, 16:40

Quote:

Originally Posted by Soulless

mines in with the same problem dude.
Citroen Ashford, wheres yours?

its up at his in darlo

duno if it got fixed before he went back or not though