My lazy question for the day...

MagicMarker

I managed to leave the radio on in my car for 2 days running and now my battery is completely flat:o

Does anyone know if Quinn's ''roadside'' assistance is only applicable to the roadside, or will they come out to the house? The only other car I have access to has a smaller engine and so won't jump start it, and I don't particularly want to ask the neighbours (strangers)..

drBill

MagicMarker wrote: »

I managed to leave the radio on in my car for 2 days running and now my battery is completely flat:o

Does anyone know if Quinn's ''roadside'' assistance is only applicable to the roadside, or will they come out to the house? The only other car I have access to has a smaller engine and so won't jump start it, and I don't particularly want to ask the neighbours (strangers)..

Unless it's a toy car, or not 12V, it should still be capable of getting yours started with a set of jump leads. Just leave the 2 batteries hooked up together for a while before cranking your engine so that your battery can recover a bit of charge, and make sure to keep the engine running on the small one during the option to help it stay topped up and you should be fine.

MagicMarker

drBill wrote: »

Unless it's a toy car, or not 12V, it should still be capable of getting yours started with a set of jump leads. Just leave the 2 batteries hooked up together for a while before cranking your engine so that your battery can recover a bit of charge, and make sure to keep the engine running on the small one during the option to help it stay topped up and you should be fine.

I've tried it before on the many occasions I've had a flat battery, the only time it's successfully been jump started is from a car with a larger engine.

Unless of course you mean leave them hooked up for hours? Which I really cannot be arsed to do!:p I don't live in the greatest of areas and don't particularly fancy sitting in my car for the majority of the evening

Anyhoo, breakdown assistance is on its way! May as well get something back from my insurance!

snowman707

MagicMarker wrote: »

Which I really cannot be arsed to do!:p I don't live in the greatest of areas and don't particularly fancy sitting in my car for the majority of the evening

but you must have left your key in the ignition for 2 days otherwise the radio wouldn't on

area can't that bad

MagicMarker

snowman707 wrote: »

but you must have left your key in the ignition for 2 days otherwise the radio wouldn't on

area can't that bad

My radio works without the key in the ignition.

Cookie_Monster

you can jump-start a transit with a micra, two of my friends had to do it a while back

listermint

You should have no issue jumping with the other car, unless of course that battery has issues of its own.

Matt Simis

listermint wrote: »

You should have no issue jumping with the other car, unless of course that battery has issues of its own.

Cookie_Monster wrote: »

you can jump-start a transit with a micra, two of my friends had to do it a while back

I used to say that too, until I tried to jumpstart our 530i with a 1.8 Rover and then a Corsa. We left the smaller cars running a full 15min and they still would just not jump the bigger BMW.

OP, buy a trickle charger and/or another battery and just swap it. Also fix your radio, thats clearly installed incorrectly (Live and Switched 12v lines reversed).

Cookie_Monster

Matt Simis wrote: »

I used to say that too, until I tried to jumpstart our 530i with a 1.8 Rover and then a Corsa. We left the smaller cars running a full 15min and they still would just not jump the bigger BMW.

well they did it so it can be done

bmw535d

Cookie_Monster wrote: »

well they did it so it can be done

yes it can be done if you have hgv duty jump leads. I once used my jeep battery to jump start a tractor with normal car jump leads and it fried them.

+1 buy a trickle charger and leave it on for a day or too..

the battery is probably fooked now anyway.

D_murph

bmw535d wrote: »

yes it can be done if you have hgv duty jump leads. I once used my jeep battery to jump start a tractor with normal car jump leads and it fried them.

+1 buy a trickle charger and leave it on for a day or too..

the battery is probably fooked now anyway.

X2^.

My dad jump started a tractor years ago with a 1.4 petrol Corolla (00 model) and it was almost too easy TBH. The leads were pretty heavy alright so maybe that helped but it definitely proved that the car was able to do it though.

The battery might be ok actually. I did something similar 2 years ago with mine and it was flat as fook. Couldnt even try and turn over the engine and I jump started it with my brothers car and had no problem since.

Now if he has had it happen as frequently as he says and with the same battery, then you could well be right.

bongi69

MagicMarker wrote: »

I managed to leave the radio on in my car for 2 days running and now my battery is completely flat:o

Does anyone know if Quinn's ''roadside'' assistance is only applicable to the roadside, or will they come out to the house?

If they won't come out to the house, push it down the road outside the neighbours, and call them then

Back to topic, do most cars now not have some method of cutting power to non essentials when the battery is running low? I know I've left my (OEM VW) radio on after a cleaning session (can be turned on without key), to come back a few hours later and find it off

Esel

Heavy duty jump leads make a huge difference.....

Matt Simis

Think you guys are right on the leads in fairness, the ones I used were mid range at best.