Hi,
So you wanted a recap of exactly what has happened to the car so far.
First thing I think it is important to tell you. We took the car to have it's after market immobiliser disabled because the key fob you used to disarm it wasn't working properly. Also had a brand new battery in January.
Took it for new tyres at the garage where we have our MOTs done. They couldn't drive it into the workshop because it wouldn't start so they pushed it into the workshop. There was no feed to the starter motor. We took them the second key in case there was something wrong with the original. (the car was car jacked with the key so had a second key coded to it). We called recovery who also couldn't do anything with it so had it towed to a friendly auto electrician. They said they tested everything they could think of and concluded the ECU must be faulty. Lots of people in the UK advertise ECU testing, not 100% sure what they do.
ECU came back fine and working. Refitted it to car, got auto electrician to check all electrical connectors and several were resoldered including the ones marked on the RCM post as being common issues. Reconnected anything that had been disconnected and the car would crank for 2 or 3 seconds then nothing until you disconnected and reconnected the battery. Battery was fully charged before the auto electrician arrived and was connected to another car with jump leads at some points (from what Paul Noyce has told me!)
I took over because I was fed up of my mum complaining about not having her car. We disconnected the RCM following advice on here to make sure the soldering was ok. Board looks a little discoloured at the new solder points but other than that everything was ok. Took the RCM back to the car, reconnected it, hooked the car up to my van with jump leads and nothing. All the lights come on on the dash but there is not even a flutter from the engine, just the wurring sound which as I mentioned could have been there before! Ignition lights don't go out at all they are constantly on, spanner shows to say it is past it's service mileage but not fault codes are logged.
My Dad is absolutely convinced it is not the battery.
Stephanie