When will you people learn just because your battery registers 12 v lights come on that use hardly anything as in power when you turn your starter motor it draws a lot of power (load )if your battery is weak it can not manage the sudden draw!!! Get it tested!! Its. Called a drop test load test shunt test all mean the same thing.
As I've said, the car is stuck at the station and I can't get to anywhere to exchange the incorrect battery or get mine tested until Saturday.
I'm just exploring my options in trying to get the bloody thing home at the moment. I hoped charging the battery would be enough to get it to fire up just once, but even with a freshly charged booster pack giving a helping hand it still won't turn the engine over.
It looks like I'm stuck paying car parking on it until the weekend then.
AA would be cheaper at this rates a p38 owner without
I'm thinking starter or Solinoid knackerd as already tried boost12.3V is not enough. +1 on the battery knackered!
Take the new battery and a set of jump leads, leave existing (old) battery connected and hook up new one in parallel. Start the motor, disconnect new battery keeping motor running and head home... Simples!
Good luck.
Yep unless you pay top money most are knackerd due to sitting about waiting for action to Arrive
Anyway, I just tried the new battery with jump leads idea (genius btw!) and same result.
