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YOUR RESEARCHUrgent help - charging battery but how do I turn off boot light?
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I've only just got the car so didn't realise it would only take 5 secs to disconnect the light - I thought you had to take the whole black casing off !!!
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Another option would be to simply use a hardwired battery maintainer connection to the battery and route the cable out the top of the bonnet by the windscreen...that way the hood can stay closed whilst charging.
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I've only just got the car so didn't realise it would only take 5 secs to disconnect the light - I thought you had to take the whole black casing off !!!
Urgent help - charging battery but how do I turn off boot light?
Use hardwired battery maintainer connection
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Another option would be to simply use a hardwired battery maintainer connection to the battery and route the cable out the top of the bonnet by the windscreen...that way the hood can stay closed whilst charging.
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Hi - does anybody know as my front bonnet HAS to stay open? I opened the fuse box to see if I could pull out the fuse but there is no fuse plan in there????
Please can someone help (car is uk 1998 c2).
Thank you.
Easiest way is to just depress the switch like the hood would, easy to do with a screwdriver. Just remember to pull the release again before trying to shut it, since the latch will be in the closed position.
Sorted it. I've only just got the car so didn't realise it would only take 5 secs to disconnect the light - I thought you had to take the whole black casing off !!! Thanks for all your help.
Now I need to find a fuse plan for my car as the last owner lost it - I found one on the net but I think that must be for cars in the states as it said fuse A5 but that didn't do anything? Might pick up with my local independent to get one
If you're going to charge your battery often, then it may be simpler to just get a battery maintainer that plugs to the cigarette lighter port.
///Michael
Yeah I'm going to get a CTEK which is popular over here (UK). Never had any issues with my BMW M3 like this, but it was driven daily. With the prolonged snow / cold spell of 4 weeks so far in the UK my 996 with its M030 suspension would act as a snow plough so it's staying safely in the garage for now !!!
Normally we get 2/3 days of snow and that's it - trust us to get a 1 in 50 years blip when I get a 996 1!!
In my manual it tells me to refer to the paperwork in the fuse box
I'll double check if I'm looking at the "service manual" per se and not just an owners manual (just in case you're referring to something else).
You do not need to turn the light off if you have a charger on the battery. I have charged mine with the light on twice now.
I finally got the battery maintainer thing. Works well, but I have never needed it on anyother car I have had. If I did not drive the car for any length of time I would come back to a dead battery. Strange.
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Take a look inside the fuse cover you took off in the foot well. My fuse diagram type thing in folded in there. All different languages, but English is in there. Keep looking.
Another option would be to simply use a hardwired battery maintainer connection to the battery and route the cable out the top of the bonnet by the windscreen...that way the hood can stay closed whilst charging. Quite easy to do.
I wouldn't agree.
We have a Rennlist member, T2, who has 243,000 miles (almost 400,000 km) on his 2003 996 Turbo X50. It is a daily driver in New England (snow and all) and is still on the original clutch.
The 996 Turbo is regarded by many (outside of RL) as the world's most reliable daily driver supercar...and based on the above example, I would agree.
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