Right had my new black ST for two weeks
love the car ace to drive and quick
BUT......
I need help
!st of all the water pipe came off and went through the fan so no water in engine ford temp fixed it
so its going in tueday to be sorted
and now when i drive it in the morning when at lights battery light is coming on????
also 2 times now inc tonight the car would not start any ideas?????
thanks

Have you got a multimeter? If so try connecting up red to positive and black to negative and check the voltage (DC) of your battery. Make sure you turn the meter to DC. Shoule be around the high 12 to low 13volts.

Check the leads and make sure no mositure is still around the terminals. Could be that theres a film of antifreeze preventing a nice connection.

Just an idea.

Sounds like a problem with the alternator to me. As it's going back in on Tuesday best get the experts (for want of a better word) to fix it, after all that's what the warranty is for.

I dont know if this will help but someone else seemed to have had a similar problem

http://www.fordfiestast.co.uk/showflat.php?Cat=0&Number=18412&an=0&page=1#18412

Check that the battery terminals are tight, if you can move them by hand they are not tight enough.It,s a double problem won,t start and won,t charge properly.Are you waiting for the lights to go out before starting.When you say it won,t start ,what does it do?

it turns over but its like its flooded when it does start it runs bad for 1st few second like a miss fire

ChrisJ, my Puma does that intermittently, you start it, it seems like the engine has flooded, then (flooded engine start on Puma is to floor the accelerator for some reason - that seems the wrong thing, but it works) and then it runs sh*t rough for about 20 secs, then sorts itself. I find just hold revs at about 3 for a few secs and it sorts it self out. Its been checked and nothing is 'apparantly wrong' tho.. oh well, im giving it back on thursday!

right taken it back to ford today
spoke to the service manager who really didnt give a shit
i have told them they have 48hrs to fix else they can keep it

id say "RAR, yeh GOOOO! Girl Power!"
but you're not a girl, so I wont.

cars been in still not fixed what would you guys do demand a new one?????
thanks

Do they think they've fixed it?

yes but rang them today to tell them they havent

If you have had it less than 28 days .....back it!!

Ford will only consider giving you a new one if you have a repair they can not fix after 3 attempts with the assistance of ford technical, or if its been off the road for 21 days, or some other reason i can't remember.