Hello all, I was hoping for some advice/opinion on what could be the issue with my Meriva '04 Semi-Auto Easytronic as it's been giving me a lot of trouble recently.

The problems started early one morning a week or so back when it was freezing. I left work at 5am to go home, when I tried to start my car it wouldn't turn over at all. Power was going to the car via the battery but the engine was competly dead and not a sound was coming from it except a clicking sound as if the starter was failing every other attempt or so. I also heard a clicking sound from the passenger side. I though it might be down to the cold weather so I left it alone after a couple more attempts. I had to remove the key and reinsert several times and to get it to finally start which it did. At the time I wasn't paying attention to the dash so I'm not sure if the F or engine light came up but it got me home perfectly fine and I even drove around for a few days after that with no issue. I though perhaps this car dosen't like the cold/damp and left it at that.

That was until yesterday when I had to leave for work in the evening. I tried to start the car but it was giving me the same problems, after trying the aforementioned method to get it started it did but I heard a creaking/ticking sound from the passenger side and it felt as if the engine shuddered and wasn't right somewhere. I reversed the car out of my driveway but when I went to go foward it wouldn't move at all, as if it was limping. It slipped into reverse easily enough but I couldn't get it back over my drive at all, it kept revving and just wouldn't get up the 5 degree slope of my drive. I actually had to get out and push it back up again.

I haven't tried to drive it out again but it's still doing the weird sometimes start sometimes won't thing. I checked the dash and it's showing a solid F, sometimes it's a flashing F or a flashing N. I did some poking around and found out about the pedal test, which I did and it's giving me code 1700 which is appaerntly a generic code? Unless I'm missing something. I am debating on getting the AA man to come down to see if he can get a computer hooked up and see if he can get more comperhensive codes for me. I've got a bad feeling that the gearbox is screwed but I'm hoping if anyone has any insight as I'm not use to these automatic/semi-auto cars at all.

Edited by Ucuetis on 01/01/2017 at 23:31