I'm not normally up and about st this time of the morning, but today I'm sat waiting for the RAC to arrive

At 5:30 this morning I was supposed to be heading for Southampton for a days work, but my Octy firmly refuses to start. Immobilised, and quite effectively too!

The engine turns very slowly, as if the battery is flat (but it isn't), or the starter solenoid just clicks repeatedly. With jump leads attached, it spins fast enough to start, but immediately cuts out.

So I coughed £60 to the RAC to upgrade to HomeStart, and they're on their way, hopefully. Bl**dy annoying. Today was quite important to me, but it's down the pan now.

I still reckon that the Clifford alarm is the cause of all this, so if they can get it started, I'm taking the car to the garage and have them remove the thing and ceremoniously throw it in a skip.

P.S. ... pushing an Octy Vrs on your own across a public car park at 5.30 in the morning is not to be recommended ... a VERY bad start to the day :( , not to mention the humiliation!

Whats the latest Chris - Are you sorted?

hope it gets sorted quickly, pushing octavia's isn't too hard on your own

try bump starting one on your own :eek: that was hard work

Hope you get sorted. Removing the alarm completely will be a different problem, as the cars wiring loom is cut short when its installed. The only real solution is to get the alarm fixed/replaced or a new loom.

All sorted!

The RAC man turned up, and promptly diagnosed a knackered battery.

It was borderline, but the voltage drop when I was trying to start the car was enough to make the alarm think that the electrics were being tampered with, so the immobiliser took over. Sometimes it worked, sometimes it didn't .. until this morning of course.

Anyway, I fitted a new battery (