My Classic (MY00 UK turbo) has a flat battery (I'm not using it much at the moment). Last week I successfully jump started it from our Ford Focus. Today it was flat again and without having the Focus a friend tried to jump it from a Ford diesel van (I had a funny feeling that this might be the wrong thing!).

When I connected the leads there were some sparks when the negative lead was connected to the Impreza. Now there is no power: no dash lights or any sign that the engine will try to start, except that the side lights and indicators have power. I'm thinking that something has shorted, or a fuse blown?

Any advice is much appreciated.
Nick

 

Check obvious first- fuses and put a new battery on it.
If after checking they are all ok, you could of buggered the ECU

 

go into the fuse box under the bonnet and have a look at the main fuseable link, its looks like a piece of wire with 2 spade connectors on it, mine did the same thing, check that worked for me, hope this helps wiggy1

 

You should ground to the engine not the battery Hope its not to serious

 

I had a simlar problem with my old MX5 i know its a different car, but the battery was so dead it caused sparks just cause it was taking the power from the other car, could be just your battery man, could be litrally no life in it what so ever

 

same happened on mine,
chris

 

pain in the **** to get hold of, i ended up making one with some subwoofer power cable and to terminals.

 

Thanks folks will check these things. BTW I did ground to the engine, just didn't know what to call the bit that I used

Nick

 

Hate to state the obvious, but did you get the polarity right?

JohnD

 

Did that once similar battery but terminals reversed. So always double check first.