Battery/Starting Issues

14th June 2013
Since changing my battery position I had been plagued with starting issues . Which resulted buying multiple batteries in an attempt to fix the issue. When fitting the battery compartment I had been forced to move the connections to the battery earth from the inside of the car to under the car on the reverse of the fitting.

The fault It seemed to have a good earth. when I tried to start the car with a fresh battery and started the car well. This changed after the car was moved location and the voltage at the battery connections would drop below 10v . Most experts including myself thought this was the battery failing. The problems continued with a different battery . I decided this had to be electrical and looked at what I had changed recently .

The most obvious thing was that I had move the battery compartment. I decided to move the negative line from the battery to the same position as the gearbox earth strap. luckily I had enough length of cable to allow this and it was just a case of unbolting the strap and securing the battery wire on to the same position. The picture above shows the new position to the right the old position no longer used.