Flat Barsteward Battery - quick advice please!

[daveyb662]

The initial message was deleted from this topic on 14 November 2011 at 21:23

[nxi20]

Can't see why not. I've jumped my GT3 from my Golf on several occasions without a problem.

[FlybyWyre]

Quick reply is buy a new battery (non Porsche) or a Power Pack starter that will be usefull for all your cars.
The clicking is probably the starter solenoid not quite doing its job because of low battery power.

[daveyb662]

Is there any way to stop the alarm sounding when trying to start the car?

[thegoose]

daveyb662 said:

Is there any way to stop the alarm sounding when trying to start the car?

It's only doing that because it senses a voltage drop when you try to crank it - if the state of the battery is that poor there's no point trying to start it.

Battery should be an 096 type.

[DJFish]

There is a section in the manual about jump starting (ie supplying an alternative electrical source)
From memory you can jump start from another car via terminals in the engine bay.
There's also an option to attach a spare battery to a terminal in the fusebox but that's just to get the bonnet open to access the battery.
Or if you have one you can plug a battery conditioner in your lighter socket or attach it to the battery and wait for it to do its thing.

To silence the alarm, try manually locking and unlocking the door with your key once you have an alternative power supply attached.

[thegoose]

DJFish said:

Or if you have one you can plug a battery conditioner in your lighter socket or attach it to the battery and wait for it to do its thing.

True, but the ignition switch needs to turned on for the lighter socket to be on - won't work if it's not.

[Magic919]

thegoose said:

True, but the ignition switch needs to turned on for the lighter socket to be on - won't work if it's not.

Is this just the Turbo? Permanent live on my 996.

[thegoose]

Magic919 said:

thegoose said:

True, but the ignition switch needs to turned on for the lighter socket to be on - won't work if it's not.

Is this just the Turbo? Permanent live on my 996.

Carrera & Turbo should be the same. It doesn't happen often but maybe I'm wrong

[Magic919]

Certainly live on my Carrera and C4S. I thought it was the same on all the modern Pork.

[turk1]

thegoose said:

Magic919 said:

thegoose said:

True, but the ignition switch needs to turned on for the lighter socket to be on - won't work if it's not.

Is this just the Turbo? Permanent live on my 996.

Carrera & Turbo should be the same. It doesn't happen often but maybe I'm wrong

I think its only on the early cars pre facelift that there not permanent live but not sure about the turbo