FLAT BATTERY

FLAT BATTERY

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GasBlaster

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27,428 posts

281 months

Wednesday 14th November 2001
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Got back from busines trip to find Griff suffering from flat battery. This is the second time its happened now - obviously it just pines when Im away. My question is, it it worth charging again or is it new battery time?
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GasBlaster

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27,428 posts

281 months

Saturday 17th November 2001
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Invested £40 in a set of jump leads and eventually got the beast started again. Whoever designed the battery location in the Griff should be taken outside and shot. Firstly impossible to make out terminal polarity. Even with help of periscope fashioned from wife's powder compact mirror. Secondly impossible to fit jump lead grips as no room around terminals. Ended up taking a hacksaw to the fibreglass battery cover. God knows how the thing was fitted; presumably the battery was the first component installed and the rest of the car built around it!