Allelulia, it started!
Jan. 16th, 2015 07:15 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
davidgillonMy car, that is.
This might not seem so monumental an achievement, but it's the first time in years it's started when I turn the key after being away over Christmas. It's sort of my fault, sort of one of those things, but I drive it so little (c2000 miles a year) that there's never a great charge on the battery, and three or four weeks sitting outside in over-Christmas weather without being driven is often enough to drain the battery. I've actually had two batteries fail completely, the chemistry in one cell being just too far gone to charge them back up, but mostly it's been the case of getting the nice man from the AA or RAC (whichever has the Toyota contract this year) to hook up his boost box (battery on steroids) and jump it that way, then running the engine for long enough to put a decent charge on the battery. I do have a battery charger, but mostly it doesn't have the oomph to overcome the chemistry problems in this situation, where the boost-box and car do. This year I thought my odds were even worse, as being hospitalized meant it had hardly been driven in December at all, but I turned the key and it worked.
Not sure there's a moral to this tale, other than thank god it started and I can go places when I need too!
This might not seem so monumental an achievement, but it's the first time in years it's started when I turn the key after being away over Christmas. It's sort of my fault, sort of one of those things, but I drive it so little (c2000 miles a year) that there's never a great charge on the battery, and three or four weeks sitting outside in over-Christmas weather without being driven is often enough to drain the battery. I've actually had two batteries fail completely, the chemistry in one cell being just too far gone to charge them back up, but mostly it's been the case of getting the nice man from the AA or RAC (whichever has the Toyota contract this year) to hook up his boost box (battery on steroids) and jump it that way, then running the engine for long enough to put a decent charge on the battery. I do have a battery charger, but mostly it doesn't have the oomph to overcome the chemistry problems in this situation, where the boost-box and car do. This year I thought my odds were even worse, as being hospitalized meant it had hardly been driven in December at all, but I turned the key and it worked.
Not sure there's a moral to this tale, other than thank god it started and I can go places when I need too!
