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    Question No Electrics, No Nothing!

    Hi guys,

    Fitted a new Varta battery in my signum 53 plate 2.2 Elegance Signum on Thursday and all was fine, drove to work and back on Friday no probs. Gone to start the car today and first thought it was odd the central locking wasn't working, got in the car, turned the key and nothing. So...

    Checked the terminals and all the fuses and all is fine. Tried jump starting it and it still wouldn't start but it did provide enough power to power up all the electrics.

    Any idea what could have caused this drain of power in a couple of hours?

    Cheers,

    John

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    Engine : 3.2 V6

    Year : 04

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    Was the battery fully charged when you put it on the car?.

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    or a dead short (any fuses gone?) ? Or maybe its not charging and that was the prob with the last battery.

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    the battery was brand new so i assume it was fully charged, have no way of knowing now!
    all fuses are ok.

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    Can you give the battery a good charge. then see how it goes. You never know the "new" battery might be "duff" too.
    Last edited by ed taylor; 16th January 2011 at 16:40.

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    yeah could well be the case.. going to stick the old one back on now and see what happens, i'll get the new one on charge tomorrow at work and report back with my findings! cheers

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    i had a dead battery last week, got it jumped but as soon as the leeds came off no electrics, i left it in the work car park and came back the next day with a new battery. It all started ok but the engine warnig stayed on. I took it to a garage about five miles away and only just made it as i pulled in i lost everthing again. My alternator had gone down so it wasn't putting anything in the battery. my brand new battery only lasted five miles. Not saying yours has gone down but it sounds just like what mine did.

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    plenty of alternators dying at the moment including mine

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    Glad it went when it did as i have a holiday to go on and the Vectra has a 600mile trip to do!

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