No go crossflow

[ken46]

Fitted a new battery yesterday, turned the ignation key, and........nothing. Lights working, petrol pump chattering away, instruments dead, instrument fuse is ok, started ok beginning of the year for a warm-up in the garage. Car's a crossflow and it's obviously an electrical problem, but I'm not a mechanic, so any ideas where the fault might be before I start poking around and make it worse?

[BertBert]

Have you got an immobiliser?

[ken46]

Doesn't have an engine kill switch, but does have a security immobiliser which is flashing away merrily and requires the insertion of a "key" before anything will happen.

[BertBert]

It's that a Vecta immobiliser? That might be the problem. Not sure how to tell though.

There are instructions floating about probably on blatchat on how to remove them.

[ken46]

Well.....success! The immobiliser is an Autowatch, so I googled it and it turned out to be an easy fix. I'd never have thought of it being the problem so thanks for the suggestion BertBert.

[Eric Mc]

I took mine out eventually.

I have a battery cut off switch anyway.

[BertBert]

ken46 said:

Well.....success! The immobiliser is an Autowatch, so I googled it and it turned out to be an easy fix. I'd never have thought of it being the problem so thanks for the suggestion BertBert.

Excellent!