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Joe1968 wrote:

Nige005 wrote:Plenty, but the PC has been OK.

... oh Nige .. that made me chuckle! I could say the same ....

I know you've had some fun recently.

Mostly good here although I went out first thing this morning meaning to take the Celica to get the bread and papers, no such luck, Battery as flat as the proverbial. A bit worrying as the Battery is only six months old but even so I hope it's a Battery fault and not a snag on the car electrics.

Still it was a good excuse to take the Alfetta instead. Meanwhile the Celica Battery is on charge, started out at just 9.5 Volts and with a charging Current of over 5 Amps, the Ammeter was bouncing off the FSD Stop. Mmmmmmmm.

sounds odd Nige?

whose battery was it, exide, oldham, yuasa

petrolhead wrote:sounds odd Nige?

whose battery was it, exide, oldham, yuasa

Unbranded Shrew, should have known better.

Touch wood it seems OK now after the charge but the jury's still out.

Probably a Chop Suey Cell then eh Nige, although not always a bad thing!


Ever since race bikes etc with pitifully small batteries and long periods of none use, i've been a huge fan of the Optimate trickle chargers.

There are other versions around of course, i have an Oxford Oximiser too, does pretty much the same thing, but i have a shelf of batteries in the workshop, that i keep topped up with these float chargers, but the better Optimate's can actually rejuvenate and recondition a previously considered Dead battery, and has done this for me many times over.

I can't recommend them enough, but at around £50, theyre not cheap either compared to another battery, but i bought mine when still in the bike trade at staff rate, thankfully, so maybe a bit much for single use, but if like me there are several laid up cars and more than a coupe of batteries to consider, they start to make a lot of sense.

Yeah, couldn't really justify anything like that for my " fleet " of two cars !

Have used a Solar Charger for years and maybe it does the job, maybe not, hard to tell. It is currently fitted to the Toyota so it didn't help this time.