Flat Battery - Breaking In

[K67 KRB]

Just tried to get into car.

No response from alarm, when trying to disable using fob and doors are locked.
Notice through window clock not running.

Oh dear.

I have a trickle charger, but of course need to get in before I can plug it in.

Edited by K67 KRB on Thursday 5th June 14:18

[crackedfinger]

YHM

[oggs]

Any chance you can edit your post about where to look

[K67 KRB]

Yoyr a star!!! Thanks for that.

However, I plugged in the trickle charger and it looks like nothing is happening.

Is it not possible to charge a battery from completely flat using a trickle?

Will I have to jump?

[oggs]

It'll take hours from flat
At least your in and its on charge.

[K67 KRB]

should the red light go to yellow though? It's stayed red as if I haven't plugged it in.

[K67 KRB]

it would seem that if a battery is totally discharged a trickle won't do the job.

So I am currently jumping it :-)

As always, thanks for your advice chaps.

[V8 GRF]

A trickle charger will charge a completely flat battery but it could take several days, I recently charges a battery from flat and it toof 4 days.
If the light stayed red on your Accumate I'd suggest that it's likely your lighter socket isn't working, try connecting directly to the battery terminals.

[crackedfinger]

V8 GRF said:

A trickle charger will charge a completely flat battery but it could take several days, I recently charges a battery from flat and it toof 4 days.
If the light stayed red on your Accumate I'd suggest that it's likely your lighter socket isn't working, try connecting directly to the battery terminals.

I'm not sure about Accumates, but if it is really flat it may not start charging if it has a polarity checker in place. I found this out with one of my battery chargers, had to connect a good battery in parallel to get it going.

[Ballistic Banana]

My optimate takes about 24hours to bring the battery back up enough to start....Only happend twice mind when i havent pushed the plug in the cigar lighter properly

BB

[Toma500]

Something like this happened to me once i had just done over 200 mile drive to a friends house in scotland bumped the Griff up ont his drive and and got out locked the car , Had a nuce weekend on the p##s went to get in the car and nothing , Got into the car and called the AA man out showed him the battery location he used a meter here there and everywhere and said he was clueless . Got the car towed to HHC and they found that one of the battery terminals had dropped off 10 minute fix .
Still got a ride in a big truck and a day off work .

[Simpo Two]

So you have an Accumate battery conditioner (it's not a trickle charger) and you weren't using it? It's suppose to be plugged in permanently to the cig lighter.

[jacjac]

Mod Note: Post removed as we should not openly document easy ways to break into our cars. You never know who is reading ......

Edited by Kinky on Tuesday 24th June 11:15

[oggs]

jacjac Thanks for giving ideas on a OPEN forum how to break in OUR cars can you edit your post please

[Pasco]

oggs said:

jacjac Thanks for giving ideas on a OPEN forum how to break in OUR cars can you edit your post please

Good job you reported him then Oggy

[jacjac]

Sorry - wasn't thinking that way - just trying to help!