VE not starting - video inside - help!

[smidsy]

VE Series 1, 250K km. There's a battery drain issue - sometimes it goes three days and is fine, sometimes it goes flat overnight - but it has recently been having trouble starting even with a new battery installed. Video example - it's about 30 seconds long and it catches at the end:

Once it finally catches there's often a flash of warnings - commonly ABS/Stability Control/Check Engine - for a brief moment before they vanish.

Sometimes the starter only gives a sad sounding bark, once, and doesn't go any further until you turn the key back and try again, where it will just do the same thing. Leave it for a while, come back and sometimes it will start up normally.

I have connected it to various OBD2 software and no fault seems to be found.

What's all this a symptom of? I thought it might be the starter motor but now it's cranking but not firing as often as it is doing the sad bark thing...

Oh, and when it does start up it takes a couple of seconds for the tacho to register anything. Is that usual?

 

[whats up]

VE Series 1, 250K km. There's a battery drain issue - sometimes it goes three days and is fine, sometimes it goes flat overnight - but it has recently been having trouble starting even with a new battery installed. Video example - it's about 30 seconds long and it catches at the end:

Once it finally catches there's often a flash of warnings - commonly ABS/Stability Control/Check Engine - for a brief moment before they vanish.

Sometimes the starter only gives a sad sounding bark, once, and doesn't go any further until you turn the key back and try again, where it will just do the same thing. Leave it for a while, come back and sometimes it will start up normally.

VE Series 1, 250K km. There's a battery drain issue - sometimes it goes three days and is fine, sometimes it goes flat overnight - but it has recently been having trouble starting even with a new battery installed. Video example - it's about 30 seconds long and it catches at the end:

Once it finally catches there's often a flash of warnings - commonly ABS/Stability Control/Check Engine - for a brief moment before they vanish.

Sometimes the starter only gives a sad sounding bark, once, and doesn't go any further until you turn the key back and try again, where it will just do the same thing. Leave it for a while, come back and sometimes it will start up normally.

I have connected it to various OBD2 software and no fault seems to be found.

What's all this a symptom of? I thought it might be the starter motor but now it's cranking but not firing as often as it is doing the sad bark thing...

Oh, and when it does start up it takes a couple of seconds for the tacho to register anything. Is that usual?

VE Series 1, 250K km. There's a battery drain issue - sometimes it goes three days and is fine, sometimes it goes flat overnight - but it has recently been having trouble starting even with a new battery installed. Video example - it's about 30 seconds long and it catches at the end:

Once it finally catches there's often a flash of warnings - commonly ABS/Stability Control/Check Engine - for a brief moment before they vanish.

Sometimes the starter only gives a sad sounding bark, once, and doesn't go any further until you turn the key back and try again, where it will just do the same thing. Leave it for a while, come back and sometimes it will start up normally.

I have connected it to various OBD2 software and no fault seems to be found.

What's all this a symptom of? I thought it might be the starter motor but now it's cranking but not firing as often as it is doing the sad bark thing...

Oh, and when it does start up it takes a couple of seconds for the tacho to register anything. Is that usual?

VE Series 1, 250K km. There's a battery drain issue - sometimes it goes three days and is fine, sometimes it goes flat overnight - but it has recently been having trouble starting even with a new battery installed. Video example - it's about 30 seconds long and it catches at the end:

Once it finally catches there's often a flash of warnings - commonly ABS/Stability Control/Check Engine - for a brief moment before they vanish.

Sometimes the starter only gives a sad sounding bark, once, and doesn't go any further until you turn the key back and try again, where it will just do the same thing. Leave it for a while, come back and sometimes it will start up normally.

I have connected it to various OBD2 software and no fault seems to be found.

What's all this a symptom of? I thought it might be the starter motor but now it's cranking but not firing as often as it is doing the sad bark thing...

Oh, and when it does start up it takes a couple of seconds for the tacho to register anything. Is that usual?

Check fuses under hood...F9 TCM.

What's all this a symptom of? I thought it might be the starter motor but now it's cranking but not firing as often as it is doing the sad bark thing...

Oh, and when it does start up it takes a couple of seconds for the tacho to register anything. Is that usual?

 

[whats up]

VE Series 1, 250K km. There's a battery drain issue - sometimes it goes three days and is fine, sometimes it goes flat overnight - but it has recently been having trouble starting even with a new battery installed. Video example - it's about 30 seconds long and it catches at the end:

Once it finally catches there's often a flash of warnings - commonly ABS/Stability Control/Check Engine - for a brief moment before they vanish.

Sometimes the starter only gives a sad sounding bark, once, and doesn't go any further until you turn the key back and try again, where it will just do the same thing. Leave it for a while, come back and sometimes it will start up normally.

I have connected it to various OBD2 software and no fault seems to be found.

What's all this a symptom of? I thought it might be the starter motor but now it's cranking but not firing as often as it is doing the sad bark thing...

Oh, and when it does start up it takes a couple of seconds for the tacho to register anything. Is that usual?

Check fuses in particular F9 TCM

 

[Xplaya]

Check fuses in particular F9 TCM

Does that stand for Transmission Control Module or Throttle Control Module?

 

[whats up]

Does that stand for Transmission Control Module or Throttle Control Module?

Trans

 

[NU13]

I seem to remember someone having this sort of problem and they sorted by cleaning either the MAF sensor or TPS.

 

[greenacc]

Low fuel pressure perhaps?
Does it have power at high reve once it gets going or is it gutless?

 

[smidsy]

Thanks guys.

Checked that fuse, F9 TCM is OK.

I will have a go at cleaning the MAF/TPS, didn't even think of that.

Goes well at high RPM - surprisingly well, actually... the previous owner reckoned it had had a performance tune at some point in it's life but damned if I know how you'd tell nowadays...