sdlangford
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My 3200GT had a new battery last year and is on trickle charge so that the battery is always in a good condition.
Yesterday i decided to give the car a run after a number of weeks in the garage.
First issue i noticed was the central locking would not work, nothing. So i used the key and got in.
No electrical power at all, nothing.
Checked the battery and the trickle charger said "charged".
Odd.
I tried jump starting the 3200GT from another car, nothing, no lights, no dials, nothing, nil.
So i invested in one of these car battery jump starters.
Connected it, nothing still, absolutely dead even with the jumper connected.
The jumper has a "force start" button which you press for 3 seconds, i did this and everything came alive.
Jumped in the car, fired her up and got it running for 30 min.
Odd thing is the alarm red button on the dash keeps flashing, and hazards going on and off randomly....
Then it stopped.
So turned key again, nothing at all.
Back to the jumper, pressed force start again and it lit up again and started for few mins then stopped.
Maybe it is a dead battery again, maybe i am just unlucky, but its on trickle charge and seems ok.
When car does start the does start it is showing 13v.
I do not really want to shell out on another battery if its something else, just seems odd, had cars with dead batterys but normally i can jump start , but this is as though the car is in some sort of shut down mode.
Any thoughts appreciated.
Simon
Yesterday i decided to give the car a run after a number of weeks in the garage.
First issue i noticed was the central locking would not work, nothing. So i used the key and got in.
No electrical power at all, nothing.
Checked the battery and the trickle charger said "charged".
Odd.
I tried jump starting the 3200GT from another car, nothing, no lights, no dials, nothing, nil.
So i invested in one of these car battery jump starters.
Connected it, nothing still, absolutely dead even with the jumper connected.
The jumper has a "force start" button which you press for 3 seconds, i did this and everything came alive.
Jumped in the car, fired her up and got it running for 30 min.
Odd thing is the alarm red button on the dash keeps flashing, and hazards going on and off randomly....
Then it stopped.
So turned key again, nothing at all.
Back to the jumper, pressed force start again and it lit up again and started for few mins then stopped.
Maybe it is a dead battery again, maybe i am just unlucky, but its on trickle charge and seems ok.
When car does start the does start it is showing 13v.
I do not really want to shell out on another battery if its something else, just seems odd, had cars with dead batterys but normally i can jump start , but this is as though the car is in some sort of shut down mode.
Any thoughts appreciated.
Simon