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Car battery shenanigans

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    Car battery shenanigans

    Weird happening today. This morning, my Volvo wouldn't even think about starting. Turned out the battery (five years old) was dead and needed replacing. There was no warning of this - yesterday it was running fine.

    This evening, the Citroen C1 we have for the kids... same problem.

    Down with racism. Long live miscegenation!

    #2
    Tomorrow your laptop will only work off the mains.
    …Maybe we ain’t that young anymore

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      #3
      Five years old? I replace mine every 3 years or so.
      I presume the Citroen's battery was equally old?
      Bit early in the year for this to start happening. Usually the first frost brings a crop of dead elderly batteries. They don't like low temps overnight.

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        #4
        Originally posted by NotAllThere View Post
        Weird happening today. This morning, my Volvo wouldn't even think about starting. Turned out the battery (five years old) was dead and needed replacing. There was no warning of this - yesterday it was running fine.

        This evening, the Citroen C1 we have for the kids... same problem.
        Make sure the connections are tight....

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          #5
          Heh, heh. Just a practice run. I've got something even better planned.
          bloggoth

          If everything isn't black and white, I say, 'Why the hell not?'
          John Wayne (My guru, not to be confused with my beloved prophet Jeremy Clarkson)

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            #6
            Originally posted by NotAllThere View Post
            Weird happening today. This morning, my Volvo wouldn't even think about starting. Turned out the battery (five years old) was dead and needed replacing. There was no warning of this - yesterday it was running fine.

            This evening, the Citroen C1 we have for the kids... same problem.

            I blame Brexit. A lot of these foreign batteries are getting concerned about whether or not they are going to be allowed to stay.

            “The period of the disintegration of the European Union has begun. And the first vessel to have departed is Britain”

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              #7
              Our car battery went flat last night too.
              Then my Dyson vacuum cleaner motor gave up the ghost.
              My amp is throwing a fit and not passing the signal my the Sky box to the TV.
              My wife left me, for 4 days.

              I blame Brexit, or aliens, which are proven to exist through ancient Egyptian hieroglyphics.
              Last edited by ChimpMaster; 21 August 2016, 19:48.

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