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Never check a battery with wire. Hydrogen & Oxygen gasses are produced when shorting a battery and any spark will cause an explosion, possibly resulting in acid in your eyes and engine bay contamination. Use a voltmeter
If air is pumping out air box, it's got to be the head gear is not aligned properly with the crank and the inlet valve is open for a duration of the up stroke of the piston. Hope it's not a bent or stuck valve but start with the timing marks and check they are where they should be.
So its deffo not a battery or connection problem, garage says the car needs new timing chain and guide rails, he doesnt think the engine has any other damage so hopefully il be lucky and the new chain and rais will sort the problem but without taking the head off he obviously isnt 100% sure. He has quoted me £415 parts and labour for the job, ive said ok to this as what ive looked at seems to be an ok price for the type of job. Just hope theres nothing more to it
Just spoke to the mechanic, he repllaced the chain and rails and whatever else was needed for that bit of the job, hese done a compression test with the new parts on and says it looks like there is some damagae to the valves or other things in the engine, so hese gunna strip the head and have a better look and il know in a few days the extent of the damage
Sorry for late reply and update, anyway turns out no pistons were bent and engine not seized, valves were leaking though but all thats sorted now and i should have the motor back tomorrow at some point! £800 was the damage in the end! Hope its ll running ok with no more problems