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Won't Start!

Started by Ben NA , Feb 23 2011 07:57 PM

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#21 Ben NA

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Posted 24 February 2011 - 06:32 PM

Walked to Halfords, purchased battery charger for £39.99 plugged in and connected to battery. Charging.......30 seconds later, fully charged and maintaining light comes on! FFS! rant

Edited by Ben NA, 24 February 2011 - 06:33 PM.

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#22 H1 HWK

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Posted 25 February 2011 - 12:02 AM

Walked to Halfords, purchased battery charger for £39.99 plugged in and connected to battery. Charging.......30 seconds later, fully charged and maintaining light comes on! FFS!

Hey Ben, stumped on this...only thing I can think is double check that both the supply clamps on your battery are nice and tight. Maybe if the battery/leads have shifted a bit and aren't making good contact, when you tried cranking it yesterday it couldn't get enough juice out and today they may have been disturbed further by clamping the charger on etc.

Good luck with it tomorrow.

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#23 MaDFreeBiRD

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Posted 25 February 2011 - 01:32 AM

Ben...HAHAHAHA these cars are such a ***** sometimes arent they lol XD :grouphug:

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#24 2.2_na

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Posted 25 February 2011 - 03:41 AM

Hey Ben, stumped on this...only thing I can think is double check that both the supply clamps on your battery are nice and tight. Maybe if the battery/leads have shifted a bit and aren't making good contact

It's always best to have them on very tight.

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#25 Ben NA

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Posted 25 February 2011 - 10:25 AM

Cheers! I'll check and sort the battery connections this evening. Hopefully that fixes it otherwise ill have to swap some fuses. If that fails then I'm gonna be angry man! Josh; its pretty freakin annoying. Luckily I don't use it to get to work.

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#26 Zoobeef

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Posted 25 February 2011 - 10:35 AM

My brother got a charger from halfords a few years back that did the same think. Im not convinced the thing works at all

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#27 jameso

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Posted 25 February 2011 - 11:13 AM

Right so after my lights, radio, heater, alarm e.t.c worked yesterday, nothing works today and the interior light barely even illuminates! Maybe those LED number plate bulbs drained the battery?! I've changed them back now and will have to walk to Halfords to buy a battery charger then pull the battery out to charge it!!! I do have breakdown cover and was/am tempted to ring them to give it a charge/bump start. I heard bump starting a VX was a no-no though. Any truth in this?

AA wouldnt bump start, they have a battery powered battery booster that would do the job