Dead 390 - Help
Dead 390 - Help
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wedgienauld

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130 posts

257 months

Sunday 19th February 2006
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Hello - I have a late model 390SE. My car as stood for a few months - of course I came to start it and the battery was dead. I connected an optimate battery charger to the her and this morning (24 hours later) went out expecting to start her up. Could,nt find the bloody car keys, so I checked inside the car and I they they are - I've left them in the ignition, and left the ignition switched on. Now I she is totally dead, including no blinking light from thne Gemini immobilser. Ive checked the fuses which are at the back of the glove box and the all apear to be fine. - pleae HELP.

blaineuk

2,615 posts

276 months

Sunday 19th February 2006
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battery completely flat, possiably need a new battery

adam quantrill

11,679 posts

271 months

Sunday 19th February 2006
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Give it a few more days of charging with the ignition off this time. I left mine in the ignition and expected the battery to have been killed. It only took an overnight charge to bring it back to life.

wedgienauld

Original Poster:

130 posts

257 months

Saturday 25th February 2006
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Blaine, Adam, thank you for your support: I've had the battery on an optimate for the past week and although it registers the battery as 50 Percent discharged, (and surely therefore 50 percent charged), there is absolutely no power being provided to the car. I took it back to the gargare I bought it from early this morning and when I told him that I suspected it was goosed, (I was,nt going to tell him how I'd come to discharge it in the first oplace), he suspected there was something amiss, with my car. He told me that a battery displaying these siymptoms will not be revived without a boost charge. I left it with him and when I retrieved it he told me it was now 100 percent charged; sure enough it works fine now.

wedg1e

27,035 posts

294 months

Saturday 25th February 2006
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An Optimate type charger will not deliver enough current to recharge a flat battery: they're only intended to 'top-up' a charged battery.

dickymint

29,066 posts

287 months

Saturday 25th February 2006
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wedg1e said:
An Optimate type charger will not deliver enough current to recharge a flat battery: they're only intended to 'top-up' a charged battery.


And IMHO a total waste of time/money and used mainly by hairdressers that don't use their cars enough