I went away during a long cold spell for several days and when I returned the battery wouldn't start. I had to get a new one. Seriously. I jump-started it and got it to the garage... the battery wouldn't keep the charge. The cold and disuse killed it.
Either take the blow-dryer to it (great idea, by the way) if it's as cold as it was, or tow it to a garage. Likely you need a new battery. $100 - $150 here.
PLUG IT IN, Itll warm up the block. Then get one of those portable starter blocks and after a night on the block heater, just crank it over. Is your a hybrid? If it is, your gonna need to get it in a garage to warm up the big batteries
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Seed
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Fri 8 Jan, 2010 06:35 pm
@Rockhead,
Mame has a good point. With the battery just being completely dead. I do not know the depths though. I know that cold can kill a battery and keep it from holding a charge.
Though gdaig says that the battery is fine and holding a charge. If that is the case then it would seem that the problem is somewhere else.
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Mame
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Fri 8 Jan, 2010 06:36 pm
@gdaig,
gdaig wrote:
no sound, turn the key and not a thing happens.
ditto - battery's dead. Jump start it and drive it to a garage.
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Rockhead
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Fri 8 Jan, 2010 06:36 pm
@Izzie,
you mean at Tesco?
i'll check and see.
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Green Witch
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Fri 8 Jan, 2010 06:36 pm
@Izzie,
Aren't you an Aussie? You don't need no stinkin' block warmer in the balmy land of OZ. Go watch some commercials.
