Electrical issues

[Oldmans van]

G,day all I've been having stalling issues where sometimes it fires up straight away and others where I've had to be towed. So I changed the alternator two weeks ago and assumed I'd fixed my issue, until a few days ago when it started happening again. I drove home on freeway going 110kph as soon as I came to a stop it stalled and after trying to restart I needed another tow home. I've changed to a spare battery fully charged and I managed to fire it up but as soon as I left the driveway it started to chug then stalled , I used some starting fluid and got it to fire but then it just chugged near stalling again around the block till I got back to my driveway. I'm thinking maybe I've not joined wires properly when I did the ecu install and they maybe are shorting out any help appreciated thanks all and its a 2001 mwb 2.4l diesel tddi

[Oldmans van]

Today I found a short by hooking up test light between negative post on battery and negative cable light began flashing and I can hear clicking noise from under glovebox so began pulling fuses and found it was number 27 50amp main power supply fuse can anybody give me some ideas what to do now I checked all relays with 9v battery and they are all working where do I go from here?

[metalworker0]

Best tell the previous history, i think.

all the best.mark

[knobby1]

Today I found a short by hooking up test light between negative post on battery and negative cable light began flashing and I can hear clicking noise from under glovebox so began pulling fuses and found it was number 27 50amp main power supply fuse can anybody give me some ideas what to do now I checked all relays with 9v battery and they are all working where do I go from here?

What actual fault codes are you getting..??

Lord Knobrot (Smithy)

[Oldmans van]

I haven't been able to scan with my scanner it won't connect. And I'm yet to buy a usb cable for laptop

[metalworker0]

back in October you had intermittent EDU issues .. you never actually said what you did .. just came back and said problem resolved?

well if it just resolved itself .. we don't know .. but it could still be that .. if it got better by itself.. now failed completely perhaps?


all the best.mark

[knobby1]

I haven't been able to scan with my scanner it won't connect. And I'm yet to buy a usb cable for laptop

What scanner are you trying to use..?? If it's an OBD-II unit...you're wasting your time....Mk6 Transits are "NOT" OBD-II compliant.

You need Forscan or IDS.

Without actual fault codes it's difficult to diagnose.

Lord Knobrot

[metalworker0]

posted on wrong thread ../ sorry

[Sports140]

Replied on wrong thread

[metalworker0]

When talking Japan i'm talking mainly, bearings and chains, power tools, Taiwan everything else including bearings and chains, also known ROC - Republic of China (Taiwan)


i don't know some of the companies you list .. my list is from my memories of good from years past,

Quinton Hazell - deliberately left out .. after many mergers and take overs, i don't think they manufacture themselves

Ridex, Topran, Stark, fast, never heard of you'll have to investigate yourself with google

Some of the brands you have listed are wholesalers of stuff made by other manufacturers that could be made in china, Brazil , India .. you have to research to find out.

As regards names ... or china making close copies under similar names
like Hilka and Hilty ---soundalikes BEWARE Chinese knockoff alert ?

By putting in the question

"do blah blah manufacture their own parts" or "what country is blah blah factory in"

Note: im not convinced of the google AI answers on this .. so you'll have yo look deeper into than the AI answer!

all the best.mark

[Sports140]

Yes, much great advice here Mark!

Similar to Quinton Hazell, I learned that Hella started having their stuff produced in China some time ago. Not sure when, and it seems it's maybe not everything of theirs either, but it makes the point how brands that used to be trusted might have changed their ways since the days they earned that trust, and in some cases milk a previously reputable brand name with new "cost saving" manufacturing practices. It's a jungle out there!

I'll do some research when I can, and see what I can learn.

Also second that on the "AI" answers. These LLM's just scramble together info from different topics and present some hallucinated Frankenstein of information as if true. The unreliability makes it borderline useless

Cheers, McGilvray