Here's the story so far, the car doesn't get used much so the battery goes flat quite often and it fails to start, usually ok after it gets charged.
Recently after charged it either just turns over really slow or clicks so I bought a new battery and didn't seem any better so I then bought a new starter and its still the same just clicks the starter however as soon as I put jump leads on it starts instantly.

Any ideas on what else I can try.

Cheers
Norman

 

Sounds like it cant draw a good current. I would advise to check the ground earthing between battery/chassis and chassis/engine.

 

thats wot i would say also the live feed to the starter

 

exactly right; i've seen this before; replace the earths with some new heavier duty cable and replace the red cable between battery and starter

 

it easy to drop the fat red wire down by the abs when dissconnecting the batt and leave it off by accident, worth a look

 

sounds to me like everything is fine, but you have a parasitic drain draining your battery......

 

All the wiring on the battery terminals is all good and clean as is the wiring at the starter but I,m not sure where the engine to chassis earth is to check it.

 

Engine earths to the battery don't it?

 

from memory isnt there one that goes from neg battery to the battery tray and anoth to the block?

to be honest i scrapped both of them and made 2 new earths using massive cable....never had any earth problems since

 

the one from the battery to the tray is ok but dont know where the engine to chassis one is

 

try and find the drain. i had one, it was the boot light staying on.

 

pretty sure its the alarm draining the battery, it takes 2 weeks to go flat but the cars not starting even when fully charged

 

So it seems you've got 2 different kind of problems; a draining problem and a starting one.

- For the starting problem I would make sure the battery is in good condition and fully loaded.
- Then with a pair of extra hands and a multimeter I would measure the voltages.
- First between the minus pole of the battery to the big plus connection on the startermotor itself. Measure it in in rest and than in starting position to see any differences.
- Than measure from the minus on the startmotor and the follow all the grounding connection unill you're back at the minus of the battery.

Always keep the minus connection of the multimeter to the minus pole on the battery and measure the voltages with the other pin to the different connections. With this kind of measurement you can easily find the bad connection because that has got a big voltage difference to earth when starting. A bad earth connection will give a little to non voltage readout at rest (between the negative pole of the battery and the connection) and a higher value when starting the car at one point of the connection and no voltage readout at the other side of the connection.

Hope this will help you.

 

Got it sorted, turned out I had been sold a duff battery they replaced it and it now starts no problem just got a missfire to find now.

Thanks for all the advice.