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So my car was broken into last night, the bastard tried to drive off with it but failed for whatever reason.

I bought a replacement ignition barrel today, and fit it up no worries. I drove the car from the street up to the top of my driveway, the only issue being the central locking was no longer working and the 'annoying door beep' was absent. I have since rectified this by replacing a blown tail light fuse (strange but it worked)

While I was playing around sorting that out, I had removed one of the plugs around the steering column (near the windscreen wiper stalk).. I then turned the ignition to ON and heard the fuel pump relay clicking like crazy, engine light flashing, and the fuel pump not priming. When I try to start the car it cranks without a problem, but does not start.

Other things I have noticed: it takes quite a while for the PFC hand controller to 'load up'... and it gives battery voltage of ~8v, whereas a multimeter on the battery itself yields ~12v.

Has anyone had a similar issue before? I have triple checked all fuses, they are all fine. The car was running flawlessly before this.

Thanks

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Thanks guys, will try these things today.

Are there any fuses apart from under steering wheel, in engine bay and next to hicas computer? Car has same symptoms as when I first put the pfc in, problem then was a dead engine control fuse but now it's fine

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UPDATE

plugged in the standard ECU, turned the ignition to on... no ticking or any funny business, the fuel pump primes and everything seems normal. I just don't want to start the car with the bigger injectors / AFM.

Does this point to a cooked PowerFC? When I was first wiring up my AFM a while back the car would only run with the standard ECU, not with the PFC and it was fine (was a fuse issue), so I'm not going to write off the PFC just yet

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