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thanks guys I will bring it in to a repair shop nearby to check it out further. I'll update with what that whiney noise was because that alone set off alarm bells for me!

Hi ppl, I had to have my car jump started by RAC last nite as it just wouldn't start at a shopping centre car park. So I got my car back home and left it as is planning to get a replacement battery on Monday first thing. However this morning when I went into my garage I could hear a whiny noise from under my car's bonnet. When I popped the hood I could hear that it was definitely coming from the engine fuse box. Also there was a sulfurus smell like rotten eggs and whiffs of white smoke coming from the battery. So I disconnected the negative terminal and the noise and smoke stopped. Is this normal for when a battery dies or do I have some electrical probs causing this??

Hi ppl, I just had the same problem described and it turned out to be a flat battery. I wasted a fair bit of time checking all the fuses etc when I should have just come on here and done a search! A peculiar thing that the RAC WA guy told me was that in order to jump start the car (I was stranded at a shop parking lot after getting a carton of beer) you had to remove the relay which was located in the engine fuse box which is that black plastix box on the left hand side above the position of the battery. Without removing the relay the starter motor just would not kick in. Anyways my radio was displaying 'CODE' and when I turned the ignition key you could hear clicking noises (from the starter motor I guess). Basically nothing electrical would work apart from a few interior lights when I tried to start the car. Hope this will be of benefit for someone else trawling the net like I did tonite!