Dead battery!!!

Tony Williams

Tony Williams

Tony Williams

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First things first just got a new car!! Pug 106 1124cc - it's my first car and I love it (not that I've drove it yet but the test drive). So today I get insured for £34xx which I know is a lot but had licence for 3 year, 21yr old, 0ncb, etc - I tried multiple price compare sites so I got myself an okay deal.

Ow, all excited to drive round the block and alll *turns key* nothing!!! I forget what it is called that clicks - this doesn't make that click. There's NO LIGHTS or ANYTHING so it's fully dead. Since the car was dropped off I have tried the radio and once started the engine (not for long though)

Oh boy! I rush to Halfords! and they are SHUT! so I goto BnQ and get a battery charger. (£50 it was) I pay extra for the next one up with a screen thingy and it can do bigger cars for the future or anyone elses car.

I plug in and connect batt and it reads 0, nothing!

To me it seems the batt is dead (broke dead), but so dead that the charger wont pick it up as the charger has error display for broke dead batts.

This is the charger I bought!!! and YES the terminals are correct :)

http://www.halfords.com/webapp/wcs/..._productId_532907_langId_-1_categoryId_165629

Any suggestions? My dad thinks I should return it and go buy:

http://www.halfords.com/webapp/wcs/...er-_-Product_List_Zone_1-_-Blank&iozone=PLPz1

A jumpstarter would mean I can jumpstart the car and the box is a batt/power

Also how long would it need charging for? I was gunna do a few hr and just get the engine going and let the alternator take care of the rest.

Plus I am out of petrol nearly!!!

THANKS!!!
 
First of all - Did you REALLY just spend £3400 to insure a 1.1 Peugeot?! :eek:.

Secondly, if a battery is flat to the point where a digital tester (I assume that is what your charger is doing, trying to 'test' it before it charges it) then I wouldn't hold out much hope of a jump starter reviving it, or at least not in the long term. Often when you majorly discharge a car battery you'll be unable to bring it back to its former glory even with a recharge from either a separate charger or the alternator.

How long has the car been left sitting for?

Personally I'd be looking at a new battery. Try and avoid going to halfords for batteries because unless you're lucky enough to have a trade card they are quite a lot more expensive than a motorfactors.
 
Tony Williams said:
Oh boy! I rush to Halfords! and they are SHUT! so I goto BnQ and get a battery charger. (£50 it was) I pay extra for the next one up with a screen thingy and it can do bigger cars for the future or anyone elses car.
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Clearly money is no object. I would call out the RAC/AA and get them to check the battery and test to see if anything was draining it!
 
Thanks guys for the help. I will TOMORROW get a new batt..

The car has been sitting on our driveway for a week? with just one engine start and I popped the radio on once too, to see if it worked. It was drove from the dealership which is about 1mi it was at the dealership for about 3-6 days without any use apart from me test driving it around there. Before then? I dunno - I'd have to ring them.

Where will I get a batt then? NOT Halfords! and for a 106!

and yeah I did pay that much for the insurance. I tried loads of price comparasion sites, etc - it looked about £3.5k for me to insure it 3rd/fire/theft. I expected £3k but £3.5k - then with Admeral I got it down alittle more.

Maybe once I sort this I will hunt my quote down and show you'se the stuff I put.

Cheers men
 
Tony Williams said:
First things first just got a new car!! Pug 106 1124cc - it's my first car and I love it (not that I've drove it yet but the test drive). So today I get insured for £34xx which I know is a lot but had licence for 3 year, 21yr old, 0ncb, etc - I tried multiple price compare sites so I got myself an okay deal.
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When I was 21 I insured an ST220 for a lot less than half that.
 
£3.4k on insurance for a 106 is just completely foolish, sorry. Thats £3.4k you will never get back, you will never see again and is simply paying for something completely intangiable.

If my insurance at 21 on a 106 was £3.4k, then I'd simply use taxi's, the bus and the train for a year and try again aged 22. £3.4k is ridiculous, how can you justify it to yourself?

It's like wiping almost £5k off your pretax salary!

I don't even understand why it's so high, you are not even a new driver!

No wonder some insurers charge this, it seems people actually do just pay it!
 
Okay later on I will try new quotes. Fire me a few places that insure cars that you know are good/cheap.

Admeral and Eelephant kept coming out as the cheapest.

When I passed my test more like £2k
 
With Admiral, add your parents as named drivers. This lops massive chunks off.

My policy would be around double the premium this year if I were to take my parents off it.
 
MrLOL said:
Was the £3400 quote for you not having passed your test ?
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:confused:

He passed his test three years ago.

I can't imagine he's been completely retarded and put that he only has a provisional on all his quotes now.

(oh and on the quote topic, depending on the value of the car, you may find a comprehensive quote with a moderately sized excess turns out cheaper with Admiral than TPFT)
 
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MrLOL said:
where does the 2k quote comment from them ?

Very confused.
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From quotes he obviously got at 17/18 years old, having just passed his test and thought 'hmmm... £2000 is expensive, I can't really afford that at my age'.

Now, 3 years later, he presumably has a job and is in a position where he can afford a car and the insurance and his quotes are £3400 and up.

It's not that confusing :/
 
When I first passed 3 year ago I was quoted (similar car) about £2xxx. I could not afford it at the time and I though that once I get to 21 that it'd drop and it's gone up. I'll look into it later on and let you'se all know.
 
Definitely take another look. Being 21 with a license for 3 years theres no way you should be paying over 3k for insurance on something as mundane as a 1.1 peugeot 106.

0 years NCB or not.

Whats your postcode ? (give one a few streets away if you're worried)
 
Tony Williams said:
When I first passed 3 year ago I was quoted (similar car) about £2xxx. I could not afford it at the time and I though that once I get to 21 that it'd drop and it's gone up. I'll look into it later on and let you'se all know.
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There is something properly wrong here.

When I was 22, I insured a Group 17 3 litre 5 Series for a third of the amount you are paying for a 1.1 106 - also with NCB (And a claim!).
 
You have done something wrong.

Please look at your insurance again, and then reconsider whether you need a car too!

You could afford two £5 taxi's a day for that! Every day for a year!!
 
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