Flickering Dashboard Lights
OK after the wife's Aygo was trailered home the other evening I've been running it round the village and have seen the fault for myself. The speedo sometimes jumps about, too. About once in every ten starts the starter motor spins but doesn't engage to turn the engine. I've read on a Citroen C1 forum that this can be caused by a faulty earth strap so I'm going to take each one off and give it a good clean, maybe brush it back to bare metal, and see if that helps. Oh, and it's definitely related
OK I finally tracked this down and sorted it. Running a single jump lead between the Battery -ve terminal and the alternator body proved it to be an earthing problem - the fault immediately went away - so now it was a case of tracking it down. Having cleaned and re-fitted the earthing straps I could get to easily I then took the Battery and Battery tray out to get at the engine earthing strap. (Cunningly hidden final securing bolt, BTW.) This revealed the engine earthing strap to be loose and t