Flat battery

[ulfilias]

Hi There,

Had a continual drain on my batery for a while due to an after market stereo leaving the Bose amps on. It was sometimes posible to have the thing unlock via the remote and then on starting it would completely flatern the battery (lost clock/date settings etc).

Found the alternator charges the battery quite well and they are big beasts of a battery so it does take a fair lot to kill them. Am still cautious as when you switch the ignition on, but turn the stereo off, it still leaves the amps on as the stereo live is still there until the key is taken out, so has fooled the odd mechanic before.

*ALWAYS* worth having a pair of jump leads in the wheel well or squirled away somewhere as you can't bump start an auto (you'd need to be doing 30 or something when i looked into it).

BTW Mini's rule. Had a couple my self. The first having an innocenti interior an origional F reg that i swear only the number plate and maybe the heater were orgional on. Alas it got nicked and i ended up with a cheapie 1l white one with a bad MOT that the brakes failed on as the mechanic had tightened them so hard on i'm almost supprised it moved. Took the drums off and they were scored by the rivets. It got a very silly pain job after that for an alternative festival !!!

cya,
Lee