Hi I'm new to this site. I'm having trouble starting my 55 plate Fabia Vrs. I was on my way home from work and as I turned into my street the car juddered then cut off. I immediately checked under the hood and found that the auxiliary belt had came off due to a dodgy belt tensioner. So I am presuming the battery had completly drained. I tried to jump and bump start it, but nothing. I have charged the battery for roughly 4 hours, everything comes on the dash as normal, but when I turn the key it just clicks once. We have had the starter motor out and checked. So I am pretty much lost for ideas. Help???

Sounds to me like not enough power from the battery... the lights might come on but it takes a fair whack to turn over an engine.

 

Don't mean to teach you to suck eggs etc, but are the leads you're using to jump definately sound etc?

Edited 4 April, 201511 yr by jme808

sounds like you need a load test on the battery and check for clean connections and earth-------for starters      no pun intended :sun: 

Thanks lads. The jump leads are not the best looking to be honest. But the battery has been on charge all night and I have been told is in good working order. When we took the battery out, the leads were red hot tho. So do you maybe think there is a bad connection?

Ive had the same thing when my battery connections were in need of a clean - only a trickle of power to get the ignition lights on, but not enough to turn over the engine (just a disappointing relay type click).

 

Is it possible the belt has taken out a connection or broken a wire / earth somewhere?

The worrying thing is, I have no idea where the belt went, could it have possibly found its way into the timing belt? But I am presuming the car juddered and stopped due to the battery draining. Don't understand why it would not jump start tho

Edited 5 April, 201511 yr by Mark84

Thanks lads. The jump leads are not the best looking to be honest. But the battery has been on charge all night and I have been told is in good working order. When we took the battery out, the leads were red hot tho. So do you maybe think there is a bad connection?

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Auxiliary belt flew off and caused cambelt damage :-( waiting to hear the outcome.

I'm just hoping that miraculously it has not caused any damage to the valves and pistons....otherwise it will be a new engine job.