Car won't start

[havenoideaatall]

My older brother was the technical engineer for a leading battery manufacturer in Brisbane and he was told that car batteries can go dead if they are toward the end of there life and not used for a period of time. Apparently car batteries are designed with an average life span of two years.

Unfortunately it might just be that time to fork out for a new one. Sorry

They can get to a point where they are beyond help - there's no doubt.

There is a code on them which allows you to know the date of manufacture so you can reject any that have been sitting around on shelves for a while - info courtesy of the bloke from Emerald RACV.

[Rossluck]

It's amazing what you can learn about batteries from charging them. A good battery charges at a strong steady rate of a few hours, a dying battery charges quickly but doesn'y have deep charge, and a close to dead battery causes all sorts of weird behaviour from the charger.

As has been said previously, in this case it sounds like a cell has dropped and the charger is confused. The battery is asking for full charge but not accepting any.

[Jim Carroll]

Iain is this a manual car or an automatic.

Just a thought but is it in Park or Nuetral for it to start.

[Iain]

It's in Parl Jim, and as stated the interior light is the most romantic subdued orange and the warning lights can just be viewd providing it is dark and there is no full moon.
New battery this week.

[FXST01]

Don't suppose the lights have been left on? and thats where the charge is going?

[Iain]

No, the battery is stuffed, no draw from the battery at all.

[Daddles]

Batteries can die very quickly. I had one go in the Falchoon. Drove it to a shop, no problems. Tried to start it an hour later, not a thing. Abosbloodylutely dead. Good thing it was a stinking hot day and I had two small kids with me and the RAA was rushed off their feet, otherwise it might have been rather uneventful. New battery and away it went. Hmm, that battery's about four years old now

Richard