bateries and alarms

[MickintheNorth]

Hi again,

Just wondering how long I can leave the Chimeara in the garage with the alarf fully armed in the winter without taking her out for a spin to recharge the battery.

Anyone have any ideas? Is it ages or is is a couple of months or what?

[MickintheNorth]

Thanks Steve,

So if the battery gets flat, how do you break into a Chimaera then? The emergency door release (supposedly in the boot) confuses the hell out of me - how are you supposed to open the boot without getting into the car first to put the key in the ingition. And if the battery is flat, does the boot release still work????? Can you get the roof off without releasing the tension beams? I must be missing something.

A couple of other newbie questions - might as well get them over with while I'm here:

1) How much coolant should there be in the reserve coolant expansion tank when cold? Half full? The manual says check coolant level, but it's an opaque metal tank, and it says top up the header tank, but presumably this is only when changing the coolant?

2) I have a small plastic block with 2 buttons mounted in between the electric window switches - just noticed it a couple of days ago ;-) I have no idea what it does - could be air con but the (non TVR) dealer I bought it from didn't mention aircon in the spec, it's not in the right place and it's too cold outside now to tell if turnig the heater all the way down makes it colder or not. Any ideas - it certainly looks like some kind of add-on, I havn't had time to play with it properly yet.

God I feel like a real newbie now. I need a bible quicker than they are printing them. Any suggestions much appreciated.

Cheers
Mick