we went to see a lovely swift bolero today and the old fella had it stored in a barn on his mates farm in a nearby town.
The van doesn’t get used much but he goes down occasionally to check on it and give it a wee run.
We have talked to them a few times and on meeting them they were a lovely old couple selling up due to ill health and their description of it was spot on
When he went to open it, nothing. Turns out the battery was flat as a pancake, which later started fine with a boost
The confusing thing for me is, the leisure batteries were flat too, wouldn’t even power internal lights
So my question is, what would cause this, he assumes he left something switched on at last check but what would kill engine and leisure batteries, both seem fine after a charge.
What should I be looking at next? Apart from this the van is just what we want and they seem genuinely honest and upset to be wasting our time so I don’t want to walk away just yet as nice tidy low mile vans are quite rare around me
The van doesn’t get used much but he goes down occasionally to check on it and give it a wee run.
We have talked to them a few times and on meeting them they were a lovely old couple selling up due to ill health and their description of it was spot on
When he went to open it, nothing. Turns out the battery was flat as a pancake, which later started fine with a boost
The confusing thing for me is, the leisure batteries were flat too, wouldn’t even power internal lights
So my question is, what would cause this, he assumes he left something switched on at last check but what would kill engine and leisure batteries, both seem fine after a charge.
What should I be looking at next? Apart from this the van is just what we want and they seem genuinely honest and upset to be wasting our time so I don’t want to walk away just yet as nice tidy low mile vans are quite rare around me