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Battery Trouble !!

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Hannu

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Is it just me or does everybody have the same sort of luck as me!.
Been having battery problems since Christmas and even after fully charging the battery and a couple of good runs the battery still won't hold a charge for more than three days. well its nearly six years old and low mileage so I suppose I can't complain.
Anyhow bought myself a CD changer with my Christmas money, it arrived yesterday and fitted this morning. However with the car being stood since last weekend the battery was flat, so I decide to bite the bullet and as there not covered by the warranty went out and purchased a new BOSCH battery.
get it home tonight and try to fit it and !!!!!
ITS 4CM TO LONG so cannot clamp it down.
another waisted half day getting dad to pick me up take me Mile back to the supplier (if they have the right one) and back again to fit it.
My Mrs is havin a right laugh at my "expensive" car that sits in the garage and doesn't work.

Sorry just feeling sorry for myself and bracing for the wife coming home later.
 
I have very similar luck with batteries !!

Last year I had been counting down the weeks to a touring trip around Scotland. On the Saturday I checked the oil, washed and polished the car ready for a 6am departure the next morning.

Up I got with a spring in my step opened the garage door with total excitement, jumped in the car, turned the key nothing happened except the alarm went off, with both sirens blaring blood dripping from my ears and curtains twitching from every house within a 200yrd radius, I quickly shut the garage door to think what to do next to top it all off my other half was out on the drive and kicking off about the noise coming from the garage, as luck has it I was still stone deaf from the sirens. (By this point the sirens had stopped)

At 6am on a Sunday morning dazed that my baby had failed to start, I phoned my Father (full of apologies) to bring his battery tester round, to see if it was an alarm fault or a battery failure.

He promptly arrived opened the front boot and off the alarm went again, but he soon got this under control and after 10mins 2 cells in the battery were diagnosed as duff.

My mind is now doing overtime trying to think where to get a new battery from early on a Sunday morning. As I was dwelling what time halfords would open my eyes focused on my innocent VW Golf TDI, to my total amazement the two batteries were identical.

After cannibalizing the Golf my Boxster fired into life, and what an excellent trouble free week we had in one of the most beautiful parts of the entire world.

Oh, and my long suffering father enjoyed a fine bottle of malt as a reward for the early start ,and the replacement battery that he had sourced while I was away.
 
On a totally different note, you should have purchased a MP3 compatible radio instead of a CD changer. You would then be able to burn a single CD containing 30 CDs +, far more than a multichanger can hold.

As for batteries, they tend to last no more 6 years due to sulphating!
 
My Boxsteris just five years old with original battery. I have just retrend from a period in Middle East. The car started on the button after 6 weeks plus 1 day like it had run the day before. Is this a record?

BTW The engine rattled for a second or so before the oil picked up. This is normal in my experience after the car has stood for some time.
 
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