Jump start advice

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Sun 12 Feb 2006 11:52
Jump start advice - barchettaman
I was a good samaritan to a friend´s flat battteried car this morning, but without success. Having connected everything up I couldn´t get the other car to turn over more than twice, and pretty weak turnovers they were too.

This was after waiting 5+ minutes for a charge to get through, revving my Astra, starting hers with my engine running, then mine off, basically doing all I could think of.

Anything else to try before I go to buy her a new battery? She´s not an AA/RAC member BTW.

Is her battery basically kippered? Her car had been standing for a while and was completely dead to begin with. Not a sausage. So that´s what I suspect.

Any ideas gratefully received.
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Sun 12 Feb 2006 11:57
Jump start advice - bell boy
astra"s are cracking cars as doner starters i used to run one for this reason.If your jump leads are good quality and werent smoking then i would take the battery off the failed car and give it a low charge for 24 hours or as you say get a new one,batteries have never been as cheap as they are these days,suggest you wait till tomorrow mind when the motor factors are open as sunday batteries are always dearer.
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Sun 12 Feb 2006 13:22
Jump start advice - defender
how did you connect leads ? if you connect pos/pos and neg/neg then run donor for 5 mins fairly fast idle then take neg jump lead of the neg terminal on the flat battery and connect it to a seperate earth on the engine ,leave your own engine running and try the starter ,it sounds like the flat battery is soaking up all the power from the jump leads
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Sun 12 Feb 2006 13:44
Jump start advice - barchettaman
The leads were poor quality cheapy shop name deleted - DD ones - part of a breakdown set. Hers BTW.
Maybe that could have played a part...?
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