My fault, I left both of my boot fridges on full wack all day in anticipation of filling them with loads of lovely frozen fruit, so when Ire turned to the car many hours later the battery was as flat as a pancake.

Parked at the top of a hill, I quickly roll started it and let it tick over to start charging up. Battery was sooo flat that the radio and climate were blank, the fuel guage wasn't working, nor was the rev counter.

All that were lit were the warning lights on the dash, with the door open light flickering as the central locking struggled to decide what to do.

Popped it in reverse to go back up the hill and I think the reversing lights were too much for it and it was game over. A quick word with one of the neighbours and an extension lead is dragged out of a nearby window and the battery charger connected up.

Anyway, while it was running with the flat battery, the engine sounded dreadful - very unhealthy. If revved freely, but was very noisy; like an old bus.

Any idea why? Is there something magic under the bonnet that needs power?

TFi? WTF is a TFi?

Lets make that a TDi

I would assume the engine management was none too happy with no juice in it, that's probably why it ran like a bag o' ****e.

EDIT: the TFi title drew me to this thread, I thought you had a special new engine under the bonnet :P

I would assume the engine management was none too happy with no juice in it, that's probably why it ran like a bag o' ****e.

Prolly some limp home thingy

EDIT: the TFi title drew me to this thread, I thought you had a special new engine under the bonnet :P

The way it sounded, it certainly sounded like it was a different engine under the bonnet!

All back to normal now I presume

Thankfully, yes. After a couple of hours consuming the neighbour's leccy, I started it up and it was back to it's normal self again