Need Help!!!
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Racer
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From: Ottawa Ontario
Need Help!!!
I went to wake up her up from hibernation and I don't like what I found.
The extension core for my tender shorted out and the battery is dead. I tried boosting and just a lot flickering and clicking from the engine bay (but the lights came on the dash and the radio is working fine). I hooked up a charger to it and the charger's meter looked like it was having a seizure. The needled was bouncing back and fourth and a couple of the fuses were clicking as well,the parking lights were flickering as well (not the headlights however.)
This didn't seem normal so I unhooked everything.
Any thoughts? it's still under warrenty so I was thinking I should just call roadside and get it towed to the dealer?
Thnx
The extension core for my tender shorted out and the battery is dead. I tried boosting and just a lot flickering and clicking from the engine bay (but the lights came on the dash and the radio is working fine). I hooked up a charger to it and the charger's meter looked like it was having a seizure. The needled was bouncing back and fourth and a couple of the fuses were clicking as well,the parking lights were flickering as well (not the headlights however.)
This didn't seem normal so I unhooked everything.
Any thoughts? it's still under warrenty so I was thinking I should just call roadside and get it towed to the dealer?
Thnx
Melting Slicks
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From: Keswick Ontario
i would hook up the battery tender for a few days and see what happens.
bet it works fine.
or even boost it to start the car .........
they always do all sorts of crazy stuff when the battery is near dead
jmho
coming to mosport this year jeff?
love to see you down there. met you at Calabogie last year
bet it works fine.
or even boost it to start the car .........
they always do all sorts of crazy stuff when the battery is near dead
jmho
coming to mosport this year jeff?
love to see you down there. met you at Calabogie last year
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Racer
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From: Ottawa Ontario
i would hook up the battery tender for a few days and see what happens.
bet it works fine.
or even boost it to start the car .........
they always do all sorts of crazy stuff when the battery is near dead
jmho
coming to mosport this year jeff?
love to see you down there. met you at Calabogie last year
bet it works fine.
or even boost it to start the car .........
they always do all sorts of crazy stuff when the battery is near dead
jmho
coming to mosport this year jeff?
love to see you down there. met you at Calabogie last year
I tried boosting it and it didn't work. I changed to cord to the charger and hooked it up but there was still a strange sound cominig from the fuse box. I thought it might be a fuse so I removed the ones that were nere the sound and it appears the sound is coming from below the fuse box. Removing the fuses didn't make a difference.
Might be just as easy to go a buy a new battery
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Racer
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From: Ottawa Ontario
Thnx
Melting Slicks
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If you jump the battery on new cars you could have electrical problems months down the road. :o
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Racer
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Racer
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There still a bit of snow around so I don't plan on putting the insurance on for a couple more weeks, do ya think I should hook up the Tender again (this time with a real extension cord) or do you think I should just start it once every couple of days?
Former Vendor
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Thnx for the advise Arun....she started up this morning like nothing.
There still a bit of snow around so I don't plan on putting the insurance on for a couple more weeks, do ya think I should hook up the Tender again (this time with a real extension cord) or do you think I should just start it once every couple of days?
There still a bit of snow around so I don't plan on putting the insurance on for a couple more weeks, do ya think I should hook up the Tender again (this time with a real extension cord) or do you think I should just start it once every couple of days?
I would go the battery tender route-just starting and running it briefly just leads to condensation in the oil pan-which is not what you want.
At least now you know what to do next time.
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Racer
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