Early last week I had a new clutch slave cylinder fitted by my local garage. The day after I travelled to work in the car but coming home I had no power steering. I tried restarting the car but it displayed symptoms of a flat battery, nothing to start the car.

I obviously thought the load sensing wires. The car was taken back to the garage and I explained the problem and the probably cause.

When I picked the car up they said it wasn't the load sensing wire and a fuse had blown on top of the battery. He fitted a bypass wire with an inline fuse of the correct amps because he din't have a fuse to put in but had ordered one.

I didn't use the car until today. Drove 5 miles and the traction control light lit up. When I stopped it wouldn't restart, battery flat again. The inline fuse had blown.

Car has gone back to the garage again they will look at it Monday.

Is there anything obvious that should be checked? It seems to me that since the gearbox was removed something electrical has been trapped or disturbed in some way.

 

Any thoughts much appreciated.

Loose connections at the starter motor or a loose earth strap would be the things I'd check first.

When they did the slave cylinder and took the battery off the top fuses fell out. They're push fit so he said? And the young lad put 2 fuses back in the wrong place so the alternator fuse kept blowing. Looking at the fuse they are bolted in so I'm at a loss to figure what went wrong!!!