On 13/12/2024 at 21:30, sussamb said:

 Nothing wrong with a bit of French

Exactly why I always got on with members like you, because you get it😂

 

The “Occy245” idiot who mentioned that I signed off with a greeting…..just doesn’t get it does he🙄😂😂😂

 

Proof, if ever any was needed, that this forum has gone to dogsh!t

 

Sussamb, take care of yourself brother.  Maybe one day when all these woke, boring idiots have long gone ill be back, until then, bonjour buddy👋😂

Edited 21 December, 20241 yr by carefree

On 13/12/2024 at 12:46, oldstan said:

Bye. We'll miss you.   xx

😂

On 12/12/2024 at 23:55, Occy245 said:

Oh, this guy is still going? Deliberate provocation several days later followed by “this is boring now”…

 

It’s such a shame this forum doesn’t have a ‘vote to kick’ function.

^

1 hour ago, Occy245 said:

^

🤣

My brother came to visit yesterday, so we went out to the garage, where I noticed the red led was no longer flashing. It still unlocked, but turning the ignition on it came up with a message about 12v battery low.

 

We found the charger in a box and my brother pushed the car forward far enough to open the passenger door so we could pull the bonnet release. Brake disks are rusty so it sounded awful pushing it, lots of gentle braking to clean them up when I first go out I think!

 

Charger now connected to battery and set to the right mode to keep it topped up after reading the manual.

 

It was connected about 4pm yesterday, so should be fully charged by now almost a day later.

 

Merry Christmas,

 

Should start a treat. Just keep an eye on it over the new few days/weeks depending on how often you’ll drive it, but there’s a decent chance the battery will be fine.

 

Happy Christmas!

On 13/12/2024 at 13:42, carefree said:

Ok ok here’s what I’ll do, I’ll disable my account so that the certain idiots on here ( you know who you are) can continue with the mind blowingly boring chat that has crept into this forum over the last couple of years.

 

Was it too difficult or did you change your mind?

1 minute ago, J.R. said:

 

Was it too difficult or did you change your mind?

I suspect door number one. 

On 25/12/2024 at 14:03, Occy245 said:

Should start a treat. Just keep an eye on it over the new few days/weeks depending on how often you’ll drive it, but there’s a decent chance the battery will be fine.

 

Happy Christmas!

Sadly its all become a bit irrelevant at the moment as I've ended up back in hospital with a chest infection before I got a chance to use my car.

 

When I get home again, I'll connect the charger again and leave it overnight so it should be good to go. The charger is a CTEK MXS 10, which seem to be highly rated, so hope its as good as all the reviews suggest.

 

 

Get well first, all the best.

On 05/12/2024 at 13:11, RallySimon said:

I was taken into hospital at the end of August and have only just returned home after major open heart surgery (not much fun I can assure you). I'm not allowed to drive until 27th December, 6 weeks after surgery.

 

This means my Kamiq Monte Carlo 1.5 TSI has sat unused in the garage for over 3 months now, will be 4 months before I can go out in it again.

 

I know cars these days with stop/start have heavier duty batteries, and I'm remembering my 5 year old Yeti started without any problems after sitting for 3 months during lockdown a few years back.

 

I've been out to the garage and the keyfob still unlocked it and the dash lit up with the usual display (needed to get my coat and fleece off the back seat, it was summer when I went into hospital!).

 

Should it start OK? Reluctant to try it now as that will take juice out of the battery when I can't drive it anywhere to recharge it.

 

If you have a breakdown subscription AA, or RAC or similar surely a phone call to them would get help to sort your charging problem given your post op condition?

Gentle coaxing would probably the order of the day, possibly a little fib or two!

1.5 litres of fluid drained from around my left lung and started on a course of strong antibiotics to bring the associated infection under control. Stll a way to go yet, but I was allowed to come home again from hospital yesterday (New Years Day).

 

So today, I went out to the garage to see what was what. Car started, still had a message initially about drive the car, battery low, but I steadily took it for a drive. Rusty brakes sounded horrible to start with, but cleaned up as I drove. Felt a bit strange driving after such a long time.

 

After about 10 miles the tyre pressure warning came on, which I kind of expected. Found a suitable place to stop and checked and inflated them to 36psi - they were all different and all just below 30psi. After that I continued on a quiet drive on a circular countryside route. Home again after 1 hour 20 minutes, 30 miles completed.

 

That should hopefully have given it plenty of time to recharge properly, had forgotten what a lovely car it is to drive.

 

I have numerous upcoming appointments at the Doctors and hospital over the next few weeks, so it will be nice to be able to get myself to them and not have to rely on others.

 

Thanks for all the advice given, and to those who offered get well wishes, much appreciated.

 

Cheers,

 

Glad you're better and the car started ok. Was that after you'd had it hooked up to a charger again?

Edited 3 January, 20251 yr by sussamb

Glad it's mostly sorted and yourself, take care.😄

8 hours ago, sussamb said:

Glad you're better and the car started ok. Was that after you'd had it hooked up to a charger again?

Yes, connected it up to the charger when I got home from the hospital on 1st, then disconnected it the next day when I went out. It may not have needed it after a full charge over 24 hours a week ago, but I figured it was best to be sure.

With the type of charger you have it should be safe to leave it connected for extended periods of time. It's designed to support batteries in vehicles that are not used very often. I had one years ago that I had hooked up to a rarely used sports car.