looks like this Sunday-Mon will be the best chance to have the battery charged, then leave standing for 48hrs
So, in the meantime the issues chronologically are...
PAS cut out about a month/6 weeks back. Pulled up, switched off, back on, everything fine for week or two.
PAS did it again, seemed to be battery and EML came on. No death of speedo or anything, which suggests
not ABS ECU, but if I'm understanding symptoms incorrectly let me know...
PAS has died maybe 5 times in last 6 weeks. Seemed to happen after being stood for a few days each time, and maybe early mornings with heated screen, dashcam, heated seats and lamps on etc... Hence my wondering it's electrically-related
Don't understand why a 'lack of electricity' would cause the PAS to die, as it's hydraulic. ALso doesn't make sense why stopping the engine, then re-starting it would cure it - surely the battery is weaker after an engine restart than 10 seconds prior whilst running?
2nd to last time it did it, the engine revs died and she stalled. Many lights came on (Mrs DBG was driving)
The most recent time (ie: battery was fully charged the night before) the engine
nearly stalled, and when I clicked the headlamps on the MID blinked out for a second. I promptly knocked the lamps off for the journey duration!
Want it to be a duff/bad lead/earth etc, somewhere really. That's a free fix.