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Car Battery Advice

  • 01-03-2010 9:17am
    #1
    dubbeat
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 143 ✭✭


    Hey,

    I bought a FIAT punto a few months before christmas. Over the cold christmas the battery completely died and I had to get a guy out to charge it.

    Ever since then if the weather is cold and I don't drive the car for a couple of days the car won't start and seems as though the battery has died.

    I went a got a new battery a couple of months ago and things where fine for a while but this morning again the battery was dead. It was pretty frosty over the weekend and I didnt drive the car at all.

    Does this sound normal? It's really starting to annoy me by this stage.

    I got a charger before after christmas but it's broken now and was considering getting another.

    What would be best between these 2

    http://www.argos.ie/static/Product/partNumber/0383167/Trail/searchtext%3ECAR+BATTERY+CHARGER.htm


    http://www.argos.ie/static/Product/partNumber/7402106/Trail/searchtext%3ECAR+BATTERY+CHARGER.htm


Comments

  • #2
    neilthefunkeone
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,522 ✭✭✭neilthefunkeone


    Well if you only got a new battery at xmas and its died again then its possibly a bad quality battery or there might be a problem with the alternator, its not charging the battery enough when driving..

    They would be my 2 guesses.. So a batterey charger is only really a temp solution..


  • #3
    T-Maxx
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,208 ✭✭✭T-Maxx


    +1

    A fully charged quality battery should last weeks, even in cold weather.

    Have you checked that the radio, boot light, interior light, etc are off?


  • #4
    dubbeat
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 143 ✭✭dubbeat


    Yeah as far as I can tell I have everything switched off.


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