UNABASHED Posted December 11, 2010 Share Posted December 11, 2010 I recently started a new job which came with a company car, this has lead to me not driving the zed as much and it made sense to leave her in the drive rather than take on on the nasty slippy and salty UK roads. I've been trying to keep starting and driving around my street once a week but have not done so for the past fortnight. I went out on friday to give her a little boost and it seemed like the battery had gone as wouldn't start and just made a loud ticking nice. I tried using a booster pack to give the battery a little pick me up but it made no difference, I then used some jump leads to try get her going but still nothing. Now there is literally no response, no ticking when turning key and none of the electrics work at all. I am assuming this means the battery is kaput and so will be trying to source a replacement this week. Does anyone know what battery to go for as i remember reading that the JDM battery is tricky to replace due to its size? I might get the RAC to come out and confirm it is just the battery as I have 4 call outs to use up before january anyway and its nice to get my moneys worth from them Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rtbiscuit Posted December 11, 2010 Share Posted December 11, 2010 get the RAC out to check it, make sure the voltages are where they are supposed to be. have a search on here am sure people have reccomended batteries for JDMs before. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
350 Russ Posted December 11, 2010 Share Posted December 11, 2010 i recently just changed my jdm battery, i had to change the terminals which i purchased off of zmanalex, i also went down halfords and got one of the calcium no maintenance batterys with a 4 year warranty which was £90 so pretty expensive. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ATTAK Z Posted December 11, 2010 Share Posted December 11, 2010 tried to start the DB9 today ......... same problem after 14 days ........... dead as a dodo ..... new battery me thinks Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JetSet Posted December 11, 2010 Share Posted December 11, 2010 That seems to be the way Zed batteries go. Mine started fine last winter every time then suddenly after a week standing... completely dead, wouldn't jump start, not even a glimmer from the dashboard. I've had to replace dozens of batteries over the years but never seen one go from O.K to complete fail in a week. Pete Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sarnie Posted December 11, 2010 Share Posted December 11, 2010 I had this last Jan in the M3. We had loads of snow and as I work from home, the car never moved for three weeks. I put the car up for sale and the day somebody came to view it, I took it for a spin to warm it up. Bad move. Apparently the battery was dead as a dodo and I used up the last remaining charge warming up. The buyer comes and I go to start the car, and nothing Fortunately he understood, I replaced the battery, and drove it to him the next day and he bought it Morale of the story is, if your gonna leave it standing, use a trickle charger if you have a garage Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
racinggreen Posted December 11, 2010 Share Posted December 11, 2010 Replaced my battery couple of weeks ago in my JDM. Place I went to ordered one in for the next day with the same size terminals - cost was £70. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
UNABASHED Posted December 11, 2010 Author Share Posted December 11, 2010 Replaced my battery couple of weeks ago in my JDM. Place I went to ordered one in for the next day with the same size terminals - cost was £70. do you have details of either the battery or the place u got it - or ideally both? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
racinggreen Posted December 11, 2010 Share Posted December 11, 2010 From this place in Leicester. http://www.southwigstonshopping.co.uk/KTee.html Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
racinggreen Posted December 11, 2010 Share Posted December 11, 2010 on line store here... http://www.ktmc.co.uk/ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
racinggreen Posted December 11, 2010 Share Posted December 11, 2010 you may also want to consider a solar powered trickle charger though I am not sure how good they are. See here.... http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll? ... K:MEWAX:IT Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
UNABASHED Posted December 12, 2010 Author Share Posted December 12, 2010 RAC just been out and all sorted, wasn't taking a charge at all at first but finally got her going and just took her on a nice little drive to get battery up to speed once more Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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