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bennyboy

bennyboy

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Hi again all, been busy for a while (finishing patios and gardens and all sorts of bore-off stuff) but I'm back on the 944 trail now and it feels great! Well, it felt great until the other day when I went to start it and it wouldn't even turn over! i'm pretty sure it's the battery as it's been struggling for a while now. Any suggestions as to what type to get given that I drive the car about once a week at the moment? Also, I've started the strip the interior bits out a bit, stereo equipment (quite a lot of it), carpets etc... I'm looking to do the rear seat next but the solution is just not jumping out at me! I've searched the forum so I'm assuming it's something dead simple and I'm just a useless sod but, really, how do you remove the top-half of the rear seats? How do you get to the bolts? Many thanks, hope to meet you all some time in the new year.
 
10mm ring spanner, either end. It is a fiddle, but just push the padding back out of the way to get at the pivot bolts.

Regards,

Tref.
 
The original spec of battery was a 63Ah model but as the years passed that was upgraded to a 72Ah. Modern calcium batteries hold a higher charge for longer but obviously cost a little more. Halfords do a 'heavy duty' calcium battery with a 4 year guarantee for our cars for around £80 but smaller local independants will probably be 2/3 that price.

If you are not using the car very often then keep it on a battery conditioner like the www.carcoon.co.uk
 
I purchased one of the Calciumy batteries from Halfords last week and the price has gone up quite a bit, it's now £100. I figured the 4 year warranty was worth it over the cheaper model and I didn't have time to shop around as it was an emergency on a Sunday [:mad:]
 
ORIGINAL: Peter Empson

I purchased one of the Calciumy batteries from Halfords last week and the price has gone up quite a bit, it's now £100.
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Yikes [:eek:] I purchased a normal 4 year battery about 3.5 years ago, it lives on a carcoon and it's still okay but my lethargic S2 starter seems to be getting a bit more so this winter. I shall do the earth lead and starter contact cleaning rigmarole when I feel the urge.

In the meantime do you feel the calciumy battery spins your starter any better than when your old battery was healthy?
 
I also got one of the 4 year Halfords Calcium batteries. If you can its worth trying to get hold of a Halfords trade card which brings the price down to £60. You can spend the difference on a battery conditioner - I got an Oxford Maximiser off ebay.

 
The new battery made a big difference to the starter, but the old battery was really shot, so it's hard to compare. It was the one I intended to replace last January when I bought the lightweight gel one, but as the manufacturer was waiting for some terminal adaptors I wasn't able to fit it. Sods law meant just a few days after buying the Halfords battery I got an email to say the terminals were now available, some 11 months on... [:mad:] So I've spent nearly £300 this year on batteries and accessories (if you include the trickle charger and aluminium bracket for the Gel one). To add insult to injury I suspect that the electrics I've now fitted to the car are drawing more power than the gel battery can support, so it'll just go in for trackdays and the height of summer.
 
Try ECP for your batterie as i got one for my taxi and it had a life time guarantee, Worth a try to see if they can do the same deal on the porsche batterie.
 
OK, so I thought the car not starting must be the battery, as the engine wasn't turning over at all and the alarm/central locking wouldn't work. But I went through the service history and the battery is only a year old! I connected the jump leads up and it turned over, no problem, but it just wouldn't start? Could it still be the battery, or could it be fuel starvation? (There's plenty in the tank). Any ideas guys?
 
If it turns over and wont start I'd start by changing the DME relay and work from there.
If your old battery wouldn't even run the starter then it's either knackered (not impossible even when it's not old) or something (like the alarm) is drawing quite a bit of current and you hadn't used it for a while. This cold weather is a real killer of batteries, so if it was a bit borderline before then it can suddenly fail without much warning.
best regards,
Peter
 
Thanks for the help guys. Went out and bought a nice battery charger from Halfords today - one of these 3-setting ones. Figured I should probably get one of these anyway even if I end up changing the battery. Fingers crossed!
 
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