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Anyone suggest a good battery for me? I herd Pulse can be good? I am not going to replace this battery. I need dad to call sometime so I can ask him where the battery charger is in the lockup so i can take the battery out and charge it (on that note doesnt charging require a ground? how can you aquire a metal grounding when you charge from one of those Socket chargers off the wall?)

:) Was going to pickup tight arse tuesday fuel to. :yes:

Edited by Tommok

check your light in the boot goes off properly when you shut the boot

that's what drains my battery.

I shut the boot, the light goes off but if i go over a bump, the light comes on again and drains the battery when i leave it a few days.

My battery is almost dead.. then again I haven't started the car for like 3 weeks.. eep!

You can buy awesome battery charger kits that you can just plug and play. I have one for my bike.

Even switches off one the battery is full.

Go to supercheap and get one of those $30 solar panel chargers, they work awesome, and they work under flouro's (in carparks). They have a cigi plug on them but most cars the cigi lighter is disabled when the car is off so you either need to hard wire it or get a cigi female plug with allitators on it. I had battery problems when i went away for long periods, but this fixed it.

Is jumpering an option? It'll save you the waiting time. That's what I do pretty often and the cables I bought from Woolies for $11 I think they were. I also have a trickle charger and it doesn't need a ground. Steve you are right about QT, I get that too.

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