Battery Problem?

[XR6tZombie]

Hey guys, didn't know whether to post this here or the "general tech" but here goes

My car will not start sometimes, the stereo and interior lights will come up, but every now and then I'll go to crank it over and its just dead nothing. This problem has only occurred once before, but that was last year some time and ford ended up instructing me to turn the car off and lock it up for a minute or so and then try starting it after that which did the trick. Well now its not doing the trick, I would of thought if the battery was gonna die it would just die completely. Sometimes the car will crank over fine with no problems, sometimes theres nothing.

I have heard of people having smartshield problems and that so I was wondering if that could be the problem, the immobiliser not switching off, is there any way of testing that without going to ford (which I really can't be f**ked doing)?

Any help would be appreciated

cheers

[ZAP]

The stock batteries are crap and you are doing yourself a favour to replace it.

An auto electrician will be able to load test the battery to se if it is a problem.

The problem last year may not have been related to this problem although the symptoms look the same.

[XR6tZombie]

yeah I did a quick search before and found out about the crap batteries ford provide but some of the symptons weren't the same.

will go for the load test and see the outcome.

cheers