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03-01-2011, 18:35
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Join Date: Jul 2006
Location: London
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Today I...
Changed the battery on my car!
 (With help on the phone from my bro).Sorry I know this isn't a hard thing to do, but I seriously thought I wouldn't be able to do it so feel like I have accomplished something  Car batteries are heavy sons of bitches though - took a wheely luggage case to Halfords to cart it back on the bus but still - was a bit of a work out getting up the hill. Took the car out on a run and he seems fine Probably had something to do with the car alarm randomly going off, as as the battery power drained, the central locking got slower and slower till it stopped working altogether, but the car alarm still seemed to work. Haven't posted in motors for a while... just to warn you you may see more of my - my bro bought me Cars for Dummies for Christmas! BB x |
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03-01-2011, 18:42
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nipples lol (o)(o)
Join Date: Apr 2008
Location: Brissle!!!
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*round of applause and girl power high fives all round*
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03-01-2011, 18:53
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Reverse SuBo
Join Date: Jul 2006
Location: London
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*Hi Fives Mawee*
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03-01-2011, 18:56
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Moonshine
Join Date: Dec 2006
Location: Chelmsford, innit!
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Changing a battery can be a pig - and if you do it wrong you can cause serious damage to yourself and/or the car -
so well done
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03-01-2011, 19:03
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Rocket Fuel
Join Date: Jul 2006
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Top tip - don't drop a spanner so that it shorts over the battery terminals.
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03-01-2011, 19:07
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Rocket Fuel
Join Date: Jun 2006
Location: Adrift in the Orca
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Mind you if you can get your tongue over both terminals.... 
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03-01-2011, 19:34
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Reverse SuBo
Join Date: Jul 2006
Location: London
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Yeah... glad I didn't drop anything - worst thing would be dropping my phone and getting it lost in the engine :/
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03-01-2011, 19:36
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Moonshine
Join Date: Dec 2006
Location: Chelmsford, innit!
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My dad told me a story once of when he was overseeing a telephone exchange being put in, and one of the installers dropped a reasonably chunky spanner across the output terminals of the battery back up bank (think lots and lots of car batteries) - the spanner flashed instantly into a puddle of molten steel and gave the installer sunburn
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03-01-2011, 19:49
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Reverse SuBo
Join Date: Jul 2006
Location: London
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 @ Nutcase!My bro did say the connections might spark when I connected the -ve back on, but luckily it didn't. My dad was well proud when I spoke to him just now! BB x |
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03-01-2011, 19:57
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Absinthe
Join Date: Jan 2007
Location: Chester
Posts: 2,345
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Well done
Yesterday I changed the ignition cables on mine & now I can't start it 
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