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[Juan]

Has a flat battery on my speedster after the winter and have tried to charge it using a cheap charger.. Still dead as hell.. Is it ok to jump start the car since there seems to be a lot of different comments on this... There are like 1 week delivery time on a new battery and i want my car now

[framauro]

Has a flat battery on my speedster after the winter and have tried to charge it using a cheap charger.. Still dead as hell..

Is it ok to jump start the car since there seems to be a lot of different comments on this...
There are like 1 week delivery time on a new battery and i want my car now

What are the symptoms? Do you get lights on dash and headlight beams? Does the starter motor click once then die? Or do you get nada?

Have you tried a different charger borrowed from a mate? Perhaps your cheap charger is crap / broke? I would try a different charger first before swapping out the battery as doing this is apparently a right PITA.

Jump starting - I haven't tried it myself and probably wouldn't do either as I don't want to take the risk. Whereas I've never had a problem with charging the battery in the car.

Some people have had problems jump starting and some haven't. I think the VX manual specifically suggests that you don't do it (someone would need to check to confirm this).

[Ratspants]

Has a flat battery on my speedster after the winter and have tried to charge it using a cheap charger.. Still dead as hell..

Give it a good 6 hours+ of charging, a couple of hours never seems to be quite enough.

Ben

P.S. Perhaps the immobiliser is on? What are your symptoms?

[Juan]

The self check kicks in and start buzzing (and keeps buzzing) and then just clicking when starting it.. It was completely dead before i charged it.. The Opel-guys said that the batteries sometimes need some load to recharge ok when totally dead so I thought i might take it for a drive... The battery has charged for like 20h now and still not much of increase in voltage so either it´s dead or I need a bigger charger;) got like 11.98V:)

[TOADFOOTWEAR]

Has a flat battery on my speedster after the winter and have tried to charge it using a cheap charger.. Still dead as hell..

Is it ok to jump start the car since there seems to be a lot of different comments on this...
There are like 1 week delivery time on a new battery and i want my car now

If you left it connected I would suspect it's dead, if you are leaving the car for a while best to disconnect even if leaving battery in situ, as connected will still drain from any alarm systems etc....I have been told that once a battery drops below a certain charge they will no longer hold any form of decent charge.

Treat it to a new one for summer

[Juan]

New one ordered... hoepfully the sun stays till I get it And it will probably take me a week to remove the old battery since the car is built around it....