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im sorry ive put this in the wrong forum havent i
last night i picked my wife up from a friends five minutes away in the car (an 8yr old yaris). the car started fine when i got in at mine, i drove it to the friends house and waited outside for maybe two minutes with the heaters on but the engine not running. when i tried to start it again i got all the symptoms of a flat battery - engine wouldnt turn over and lights dimmed when i tried to start the car. it did start very easily with a push start on the road tho.
my question is, is this the cold or is the battery really dead flat. if it is the cold then what can i do to start it again, and if i just wait for it to get warmer will the battery just magically spring back into life? the last two or three times i have used the car in the cold weather (all for fairly short journeys) it has started no problem.
cheers.
1 - lots of short everything on journeys are a drain
2 - they go suddenly (e,g me - cold morning, started fine, work, warmer afternoon - dead as a donkey - AA start and then Halfords)
8 yrs sounds ok to me for a battery
Batteries don't like cold, or short journeys. Given how old it is it won't be up to its full capacity anymore. I'd slap a new battery in it personally. £50 well spent.
Anything over three or four years on a car battery is borrowed time.