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Auto electrical repairsStarting, charging, wiring
Electrical faults are the ones that make people give up on a vehicle, because they come and go and nothing looks broken. They are traceable, though — it just takes testing the circuit rather than swapping parts and hoping.
Describe the fault on WhatsAppIt will not start
A click and nothing else, a slow lazy crank, or a van that starts every day for a week and then refuses on a cold morning. The usual suspects are the battery, the earth straps, the starter and the ignition switch — and the only way to separate them is to measure what each one is doing while the key is turned.
Bad earths cause more strange faults than failed components do, and they cost nothing to put right once they are found.
Charging and batteries
A battery light that flickers, headlights that dim at idle, or a battery that is flat after the van has stood for a few days. That last one is usually a drain rather than a bad battery, and we can find what is still awake when the vehicle is locked.
Alternators, regulators, belts and pulleys all get checked before a battery is condemned.
Lights, sensors and wiring
Lamps that fail on one side, indicators that flash fast, dashboard warnings with no obvious cause, sensors reading nonsense, and looms chafed where a door or tailgate flexes. Sliding door and tailgate wiring on hard-worked vans is a regular one.
Alternators, starters, switches and sensors for the Sprinter, Master, Movano and NV400 are held here, so a proven fault can usually be fixed at the same visit. If a part we sell turns out to be faulty, we replace it.