Boo Hiss car won't start

[Davevx220]

Press the starter button and you get click click click.............dash lights on and courtesy light...............I assume battery is flat as Ive been away for a week or so.

Am I right??

Dave

[christurbo]

Yes.... Get AA out as the battery is a biatch to change [so Ive heard!]

[tolksee]

Click click click.... Yep, I had to jump start my VX last night......



>> Edited by tolksee on Monday 22 May 15:51

[TurboTomato]

tolksee said:

Click click click.... Yep, I had to jump start my VX last night...... >> Edited by tolksee on Monday 22 May 15:51

Danger Will Robinson!! Jump starting VXs has a bad habit of knackering Stacks - I did that on my silver Turbo and it buggered it (luckily jimbob got it done under warranty)

[davevx220]

Got home this evening and just managed to start it (phew!!!)

So had to go for a blat to recharge the battery....hope its OK now.

I wasn't looking forward to taking the battery out.

Thanks

Dave

>> Edited by davevx220 on Monday 22 May 18:26

[jneill]

probably won't be - afaik once it's knackered that's it.

AA it mate - worked for me

[tolksee]

Thanks TT.

It's been jumpstarted 3 times so far....maybe I have a resilliant stack unit.

(And we all know NAs stack less than Turbos, n'est pas?)

Nonetheless I know draining the battery is really quite a bad thing to do so I don't intend of making a habit of it.

[upnatom]

The battery is a bit tricky to get out, but not too bad. You just need to cut the zip-ties that hold the loom in place to get a bit more room, and tip the battery on its side to get it through the gap (watch for acid spils). The washer bottle above it just lifts out. Did it last weekend in about 20mins.