It is snowing here, I am going to bring the carbattery in overnight

[dothawkes31]

to keep it warm. Good idea huh?

[snags]

lol... read it a bedtime story and tickle it's terminals before you tuck it up for the night eh...

[dothawkes31]

well at least i can guarantee the car will start in the morning, nothing worse that a flat battery at 6am!

[boxtops]

I fell out of the car this morning when I was trying to clear the frost off the windscreen, don't ask (I went to get out to adjust the wipers and caught my foot in the long dangly bit hanging off my key ring..), good job no traffic was coming, I fell flat on my face..... perhaps I ought to bring my windscreen in overnight too?

[dothawkes31]

what do you mean April? I've just brought the battery in and hooked it up to the charger, i was going to get a solus charger but someone on here said the charge does not last as long and so i am just using the ordinary one. I bring it in alot now it is winter time, it's very simple, there's only a + and - lol

[boxtops]

I felt like I'd got a flat battery when I picked myself up off the road...

[dothawkes31]

I put a large flattened pice of cardboard over the windscreen if it is going to freeze, saves time and de-icer in a morning,

[boxtops]

I wish I did forward planning!

[ELVIS68]

I did that once and the battery got p!ssed, driving to work the next morning I got pulled over and got breathalysed

I was ok but the battery got charged

[dothawkes31]

It's a result of growing up on a farm and having to be able to get the vehicles moving no matter what the weather, my dad used to have to make sure the tractors started every morning and the land rover, and so we alwats had batteries on charge somewhere over the winter, he used to put old rugs under the bonnets of our cars overnight too, my sister and brother and I all had minis at one time, it was like the Italian job down the lane, every morning at 7am dad would make sure each one was started up and brought up the yard from the barn ready for us all to go to work!

[ELVIS68]

If your battery is in good nick the snow shouldn`t affect it

I`ve never put anti-freeze in my toyota pick up since ive had it and it starts first time even when it`s minus five degrees

[dothawkes31]

Elvis it's let me down 3 times this last few months and each time it's been when we've had a really hard frost, and so i;'ve started bringing the battery in , there's no time in a morning to be fafing about with a car that won't start, I'm in work for 7.30 - 8.oo and can't get a bus that early.

[ELVIS68]

Buy a new battery then!

[dothawkes31]

ah well, there's the thing, it's 13 months old and has a 2 year guarantee, but the shop i bought it from, a Motorworld shop, closed down last summer, and the nearest one is in Wigan, where I never go anymore, so I would have to get there at some point, and as yet i haven't managed to. I will get it swapped as soon as i can get there.

[welshlibranr]

It does sound like your battery's had it's day dot, I had the same trouble a few weeks ago, I got the battery tested and there were some dead cells (whatever that means!!) I bought a new one, and no problem now whatever the weather, even if my car stands all weekend, if starts first time on Monday morning!...................

[dothawkes31]

They start here at about the same time April, but it is two buses to where i work and would take me an hour and i ain't doing that journey!

I'm changing the battery as soon as i can welsh, for now this way is working out ok.

[ELVIS68]

dot, you can get the battery delivered from most motor spares shops