Feeling foolish...
Discussion
At the weekend, I woke up to find my car had a completely flat battery and wouldn't start, so had to get a friend over to jump start her and then went for a long drive to charge the battery back up a bit.
Anyway, came down this morning to head to work and... same thing... Dead battery... Bearing in mind it was brand new less than 2 months ago.
I'm now starting to think there's a more serious problem being manifested here.
I had a few moments until my bus arrived instead, so opened the boot to have a quick poke around and spotted the problem... The boot light sensor had been knocked out of its socket and I hadn't spotted it before...
Ahh well, mystery solved!
Anyway, came down this morning to head to work and... same thing... Dead battery... Bearing in mind it was brand new less than 2 months ago.
I'm now starting to think there's a more serious problem being manifested here.
I had a few moments until my bus arrived instead, so opened the boot to have a quick poke around and spotted the problem... The boot light sensor had been knocked out of its socket and I hadn't spotted it before...
Ahh well, mystery solved!
great isnt it? i had a similar prob, battery dead after its been in the garage a few days, it turned out to be the brake pedal gently settling down a few mm & would cause the brake lights to come on. It went to the dealer & they supposed fixed it. dead battery again. the cure? Elastic band around the pedal & mounting, problem solved. ive got through one elastic band in the last 6 months!
Charles,
Glad you found the problem. These cars are sometimes overly complex and so are prone to often silly failures.
Keep an eye on your battery as well. I read a study which indicated that a wet cell auto battery which is allowed to fully discharge can lose up to 25% of it's ability to hold a subsequent charge. You mentioned this has happened before, so your battery's ability to hold a future charge has been severely compromised. I know from anecdotal evidence that any battery I have had which fully discharged did die sooner rather than later.
It's not like it will die at any moment, but if it were me, I'd keep an eye out for battery sales in the next 6 mos. or so and get a new one at a discount rather than to wait for the current one to die at the height of the price curve. As we all know, if Murphy has anything to do with it, that's exactly when it will give up the ghost. Happy Motoring! ...Jim'85TE
Glad you found the problem. These cars are sometimes overly complex and so are prone to often silly failures.
Keep an eye on your battery as well. I read a study which indicated that a wet cell auto battery which is allowed to fully discharge can lose up to 25% of it's ability to hold a subsequent charge. You mentioned this has happened before, so your battery's ability to hold a future charge has been severely compromised. I know from anecdotal evidence that any battery I have had which fully discharged did die sooner rather than later.
It's not like it will die at any moment, but if it were me, I'd keep an eye out for battery sales in the next 6 mos. or so and get a new one at a discount rather than to wait for the current one to die at the height of the price curve. As we all know, if Murphy has anything to do with it, that's exactly when it will give up the ghost. Happy Motoring! ...Jim'85TE
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