Dear friends, I'm not using much my car (06 CS) . So today I've jump started, let it run for 30 minutes and then a little ride to stretch its legs, so far so good.
Near home I've to break or hard due a moron and the car shut off, no problem let's turn it on and go home.
And then all hell broke loose. There were so many lights on in my dashboard that looked like a Christmas tree. I pressed pushed it to a parking spot nearby and tried to jump start it, no success. Warning lights blinking,
headlights
like a strobe.
A friendly taxi driver tried to help me to turn it on using his car, no success. while we've tried to do it there was a strange sound ( clack clack clack) coming from the dash.
Now I'm waiting for the tow, writing this post in fear that my car is dead forever, or that will cost me a kidney to fix it.
Btw, I can't even open the frunk using the energy
points
in the fuse box. I
plug
my
battery
, probably drained, and there's nothing.
So please help me to figure it out. I'll charge my jump start
battery
and try to open the frunk, then test my
battery
and if so replace it (it is 1 year old, but I don't use the car very much).
But if that does not work, how can I open the frunk?
quick update: i´ve opened the frunk with the jump start
battery
. tomorrow i´ll see what´s going on. the
battery
is too low on voltage, 10.69v.
Buy a new
battery
and replace it yourself (easy). I'll bet everything will be fine afterwards. Then use a trickle charger going forward (or even better use the
Porsche
more!). Good luck
Willing to bet a lot of money your
battery
is dead beyond recharging. Replace it yourself and go back to enjoying the ride.:drivingskid:
I was not using a trickle charger because I live in a building without wall sockets in the garage... I´ve found a solar one, i´ll this thing.
me too. I´ll buy a new one today. this one seems to be too bad, when I saw the voltage I thought ¨ok... it´s gone¨
+1.
My 06 CS is very voltage sensitive.
Battery
voltage test can be misleading. Need to have it draw (load) tested and even then sometimes it'll be flaky.
Best 'smart' trickle charger in the world all winter...said it was on maintenance @ 12.7v. No start come spring. Price of a
battery
...check for coupons...not sure if I can mention vendors...WELL worth with. No need for maintainer on mine if run every week or so.
Try not to worry & good luck!
I´ve just replaced the
battery
, still on warranty. the car is on and no problems.
I´ve bought the Schumacher SP200 solar trickle charger, I´ll fool around on how to place it, but for now it´s on the windshield, there´s not a lot of sun, but it might do the trick. tomorrow with daylight I´ll measure how much current it´s generating.
thank you all for the help and support.
I once left the key inserted in the ignition of my 06CS for several days, which completely discharged the
battery
. After a few hours of
battery
charging I turned on the ignition without attempting to start it and got the same light show that you saw. In addition, the windows were going up & down and the airbag lamp illuminated. After turning off the ignition and allowing the
battery
to charge overnight and well into the
next
day, the car behaved normally except that the dealer had to reset the airbag alarm.
Evidently a few hours of charging only replenished the completely-dead
battery
enough to begin to boot up the car's systems when the key was turned. Then the
battery
voltage dropped below allowable limits before boot-up completed. Not good! Let the
battery
take on a full charge before even turning on the key.
