Micra 'dead' as a doornail

shefra · 24-12-2010 2:47pm #1

I defrosted door , hopped in, put key in ignition, turned key, not a sound. Any idea what the problem could be? Cant afford a mechanic not to mention a new car.:mad:

MagicMarker · 24-12-2010 2:48pm

Battery would be my first guess, has it been sitting unused in this weather for long?

brophs · 24-12-2010 2:49pm

shefra wrote: »

I defrosted door , hopped in, put key in ignition, turned key, not a sound. Any idea what the problem could be? Cant afford a mechanic not to mention a new car.:mad:

Given the weather and what you've said probably a dead battery. You can either try get someone to give you a jump start or drop it into a garage to be charged, though they would probably have to keep it overnight.

fonecrusher1 · 24-12-2010 2:49pm

Its your battery thats as dead as a doornail. You need a jump start.

shefra · 24-12-2010 2:55pm

fonecrusher1 wrote: »

Its your battery thats as dead as a doornail. You need a jump start.

Thanks for that. Great relief. Will get some one to jumpstart:)

fonecrusher1 · 24-12-2010 3:03pm

After you've had the car jumpstarted drive around for a while to let your alternator recharge the battery.

alias no.9 · 24-12-2010 5:52pm

What year is the Micra? The missus had an '04 one and once or twice I thought it had a flat battery, turned the key and absolutely nothing, but it miraculously recovered by the time I'd brought my car over to hook up the jump leads. Turned out to be the switch in the ignition barrel, a common problem on K12 Micras (2003 - 2010), there was a recall in the uk but alas not here. It's not that expensive a fix but annoying that Nissan didn't extend the recall to Ireland. The guy in the Nissan garage wasn't impressed when I told him they're all ****ing made in Sunderland after he was waffling on about different models for Irish and UK markets.

topazkk · 12-01-2011 11:47pm

My wife also has one of these Micras and we've had hassle of this type for the last three maybe four years, we've replaced the ignition and the battery maybe three times and as recently as during the Christmas freeze we had a few more times where it let us down and now guess what unbelievably Nissan have issued a recall. "There is a possibility that the two control relays may have become contaminated with a build up of silicon evaporating from the relay diode. This can lead to poor conduction at the relay contacts. In an extreme case the resulting poor contact could potentially result in an engine stall and failure to restart the vehicle." Anyone reckon we'd have any comeback for all the inconvenience?

Micra 'dead' as a doornail

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