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no crank, or steering lock working, traction control fault, car was working fine, been standing for two months and this happens, charged battery, and checked ism, new batteries in fob. OBD2 not working, when I plug in scanner, but it worked before.
Please help as I'm stumped!
Thanks in advance.

Are you getting all normal ignition lights as normal, traction control failure on the display, key turns in the ism but no crank!

Is it 06 with/without facelift dash.

All lights come up, tcf is displayed in middle

I see you charged the battery, but have you tried a different (known to be good) battery?

My battery went about a year ago, but when it was on the charger it said it was good, and i had all sorts of gremlins similar to yours. I bought a brand new battery and all the issues went away.

Im aware that mine is a 9-5 and petrol, but may be worth a try just to rule it out.

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Main battery is over two years old and has gone flat a few times, so, would you think a new battery would cure the problem, it will start no problem, if I put a jumper wire were the starter relay is.

It may do, but I dont want to say it will definitley fix the issue as battery's can get rather pricey.

It sounds like there could be some other issue with grounding if you have to connect the jumper directly to the starter relay to get it to start. Normally directly to the battery is good enough for a jump.

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I don't know a lot about how the modern diesel 9-3 is wired but my suspicion is that it needs so much stuff to work in the correct order, electrically, that if the only other thing it needs to get the engine running is to bypass the relay, then the relay would be the prime suspect.

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Hi
I inherited an 07 with the same issue... It is likely the battery going flat has caused this as these cars really do need a good battery.. bottom line on the one i had was the battery going flat corrupted the CIM and that was it. TechII and second hand CIM with corresponding key cured the problem.

There is away around this without going the above route... as you have have the car already starting ok via the starter relay in the fuse box, you could wire a starter button up bypassing the start position on the ISM. If you take your time you could possibly wire this through the ISM itself so the gar works as normal, I explored this with the car I had and it will work. The only reason I didn't go down the above route was I could not remove "steering lock malfunction Make a safe stop and contact service" from the SID.

If yours is a pre facelift dash 06 you may be lucky and get away with this for MOT or you may be able to clear your fault codes fully...I couldn't.

If you need more info give me a shout as the above is the short version.

all the best Gary

P.S. Charge your battery on a trickle charger over a few days, the slower the better, its likely the specific gravity of the battery is low and a quick charge will not rectify this... make sure that it stays above 12.5 volts when you finish charging it.

Ok Gary thanks for info, I will be trying a few things as mentioned above, I will let you know what happens.