dead battery?
Posted: Tue Oct 13, 2009 10:04 pm
just abit of info for all you wr1 drivers (dont know if this is the same for other impreza"s). my wr1 wouldn"t start the other day so i had the AA out & they done some tests & found out that the battery is on a power sensitive charging routine where say if your battery was low & you just started the car everyday for 10mins to charge it up it wouldnt actually charge because the engines running so the ecu doesn"t see a problem there. but if you start the car as you did before everyday for 10mins with the lights on the ecu then sees more power is needed from the battery so it starts to charge.
& i did another test recently, when the car is parked up i left the lights switch off & battery went low so tried it with the switch on starts & starts first time every time.
just thought id let you know if you didnt already. specially for those of you who will be hibernating your 1 for the winter.
thomo
& i did another test recently, when the car is parked up i left the lights switch off & battery went low so tried it with the switch on starts & starts first time every time.
just thought id let you know if you didnt already. specially for those of you who will be hibernating your 1 for the winter.
thomo