slobadoberbob
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- Jun 1, 2009
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- 25 years & counting
My Hyundai car (Matrix 1.8) is just coming up to 9 years old... it has been well used to lug about Ezzie in it and the disabled scooters. It has done 80k miles and been in use most days.
We went to start it just before we were going to France on the bank holiday weekend and it would not start.. sod it.... battery cranked down and the engine flooded... Women (Sue as in SWMBO) just do not understand you do not pump the throttle up and down... anyway I eventually got it started and it seemed OK... would have changed the battery before we went, but the retaining strap holding the battery looked well and truly rusted (bolts wise).
I have on the RV (not in the sale price) a portable emergency jump starter battery unit.. so we loaded the trailer with the car and headed off to France.... It was OK, a couple times thought it was not going to start.. but we did all our trips out and the trip to the vets etc., Had the battery jump start unit in the car now. If it did not start I could always call ADAC.
Anyway, run the car down to the garage yesterday (used them for 15 years) left it with them... Yes the battery was the cause.. but it is interesting that the battery lasted 9 years.
I am somewhat impressed. Car is due for it's annual service end of July... but they did do a check on the plugs (replaced last July) and found nothing on the tester.. so with luck that is all it was...
We are going to bring the car to Rutland Water met.. only 120 miles from Tunbridge Wells.. I will drive the RV with the baby trailer on the back with my scooter and put Sue's scooter and the odds and ends in the car... that way we have a car to get off site as we need to while we are up at Rutland.
Any one else got a long life battery... NO:Blush: not an urban Smith like Buttons MPG .. a real story
Bob
We went to start it just before we were going to France on the bank holiday weekend and it would not start.. sod it.... battery cranked down and the engine flooded... Women (Sue as in SWMBO) just do not understand you do not pump the throttle up and down... anyway I eventually got it started and it seemed OK... would have changed the battery before we went, but the retaining strap holding the battery looked well and truly rusted (bolts wise).
I have on the RV (not in the sale price) a portable emergency jump starter battery unit.. so we loaded the trailer with the car and headed off to France.... It was OK, a couple times thought it was not going to start.. but we did all our trips out and the trip to the vets etc., Had the battery jump start unit in the car now. If it did not start I could always call ADAC.
Anyway, run the car down to the garage yesterday (used them for 15 years) left it with them... Yes the battery was the cause.. but it is interesting that the battery lasted 9 years.
I am somewhat impressed. Car is due for it's annual service end of July... but they did do a check on the plugs (replaced last July) and found nothing on the tester.. so with luck that is all it was...
We are going to bring the car to Rutland Water met.. only 120 miles from Tunbridge Wells.. I will drive the RV with the baby trailer on the back with my scooter and put Sue's scooter and the odds and ends in the car... that way we have a car to get off site as we need to while we are up at Rutland.
Any one else got a long life battery... NO:Blush: not an urban Smith like Buttons MPG .. a real story
Bob