Any car that has seen little use in recent years is likely to throw up a fair few electrical problems when it is put back into service, and our Vanden Plas is no exception. Often these will be down to poor earths and corroded contacts, and as such are generally relatively simple to track down and cure. However, one or two problems on this car have been made more difficult by my own unfamiliarity with the model, and there is an ongoing niggle we are yet to master.
Let’s start with the easy stuff. A few days after driving the car home from Newcastle, I went to start it and the battery was flat. Clearly it should have been fully charged
