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Dead Battery or short...

Postby mcgon1979 » Sun Dec 23, 2007 10:02 pm

Never had any issues in the past with the car. starts on the button. washed it yesterday. first time in months (I know I know, I been busy) used a power hose under the arches to clean out all the muck etc, drove to my mates. parked up and started drinking/playing pool. next day I came back to collect her. dead. battery totally dead. I can see the "door open" light come on when I insert key so its not 100% dead, just 99%. can;t fire up the lights or start the car. anyway, my question is could the water have done this. spraying it with the hose. I was careful not to get it in the car/bonnet area, and it started on the button about 30 mins after I washed/waxed it. I'm pretty certain I left nothing on.the radio and blower go off when you take out key, and the lights were deffo off too. :( dunno. took the battery out and put it on a charger for the next 14 hours so I'll try it tomorrow.
If it does start (touch wood) what should I do? give it a good drive obviously to get any water out of it, leave it running for an hour. hope its nothin long term just a tempory short ot something?

thanks all and happy xmas
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Postby mcgon1979 » Mon Dec 24, 2007 3:16 pm

gfalls wrote:Not started mine for 2 weeks. Battery dead also. Will get round to starting it eventually...


sorted it out. Im such an idiot. I left both mirror interior cabin lights on. I had them on to check something, and I parked under a flood light then so never even noticed they were still on!!! drained the battery. Couldn't get a jump so I removed the battery, took it home in my dads car and charged it for 14 hours. car is right as rain now. lesson learned. slap slap.

argh


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Postby Bernard » Mon Dec 24, 2007 11:26 pm

Can't beat a happy ending...
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Postby Wildhound » Tue Dec 25, 2007 2:06 am

gfalls wrote:Not started mine for 2 weeks. Battery dead also. Will get round to starting it eventually...


Hehe, my car hasn't been started in about two months but luckily the battery's being kept primed in a friend's Mini. ;)
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