Wonder if any one can help before I visit a garage.

Twice now ive got in my car, put the key in the ignition, turned it and nothing has happened. doesnt turn over, no lights on the dash etc.
Eventally ive got it to work although I dont know how, however the alarm lights seem to keep going off including whilst driving (siren hasnt worked for a while)

Ive also experianced whilst driving slight dips in power asif the car basically stools and all the lights come on the dash, causing me to quickily restart the car whilst moving and occasionally my speedo will randomily drop to 0.mph

Im unsure if these problems are related but if anyone has any advice on this it would be muchly appreciated.

Cheers for the reply, this was one of the first things I checked though, everything seems conected fine.

I appreciate that I'm reviving a very old thread but hopefully it'll go some way towards showing that I've done a search.
I see Keep-3 hasn't posted since September '08 but if anyone else has had similar problems I'd be very keen to hear how they were resolved. (If they were resolved)

My 6 is randomly cutting out, when I say cutting out I mean a total loss, complete electrical failure. No dash lights, no central locking, nothing.

It did it on a bloody forecourt yesterday, I'd just put some juice in, jumped in and went to start it and

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Cheers Fletch, will do. Much appreciated.

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Cheers 'ginge' something else to check.
I do appreciate it.

Got called back from work 'cause the bairn wouldn't settle so will have to wait till tomorrow now.

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mine is citting out etc like this at the moment, but its got something to do with the battery earth, i just give the battery a wiggle an run my hand down the negative battery cable give that a wiggle an the car starts fine, this has happened to me on a fourcourt an at asda an the coop an at work getting board of it now,though it hasnt done it for a week now

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More than happy with my re-mapped T5

I found the negative terminal clamp was smashed, over tightened possibly. And possibly by me as i had the battery out when i did the clutch cable. This would kind of explain why the car would work after rocking it or slamming the door.

Picked one up off a D-turbo for free from the local scrappy, slightly different length on the body earth lead so had to make a new point on the bulkhead but seems ok so far, although i literally fired it up, took it for a quick spin then came back and took the works van home so time will tell.

Also whacked the new headlight (thanks sarahsix) in last night, all but two clips on the hockeys were snapped but all went back together nicely.
Also noticed that this (new to me) headlight only used one bulb, not two as in my old smashed unit. Is this from a lower spec model?

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