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I cancelled the AA during lockdown. It had gone up a lot and I only used them once in ten years. I'm with Green Flag now, but not covered at home. No rush for the vehicle fortunately so I'm determined to fix it myself (so far lol).
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You can get the bonnet cable block off even if you've cable tide it its a bit more fiddley as you have to careful cut it with a stanley knife or some nail scissors.
Top tip before you do this get the longest cable tie you can and wrap it round the 2 bonnet cables leave the end through the access panel so when you pop the block off and the cables try and disappear in the engine bay you can still get to them! Scott Sent from my SM-G977B using Tapatalk |
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I tried this but failed today. You can see my set up from the photo. Heavy duty leads direct to the battery on the V8. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk Pro |
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8th February 2021, 21:23 | #46 |
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I sprayed the lock with WD40. It only turns clockwise. Doing that on the V8 works but on the ZTT no luck so far. I'll be trying again in the morning, but it doesn't seem to want to engage either way. Anti clockwise seems a no no.
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If you can see the cable block why cant you clamp some mole grips on the 2 cables coming out of the box to the bonnet and pull
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On my car it's clockwise (towards the front of the car) to unlock, anti-clockwise to lock.
By the way Martin, I know that you have other things on your mind at the moment but I couldn't help noticing that your multimeter is showing a rather high charging voltage on your V8 (14.5v being the absolute maximum and preferably lower). Simon
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9th February 2021, 21:07 | #49 |
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Too cold for me to work on the car today lol.
Just a question if anyone can answer it. Is it normal for the car alarm to go off as a very flat battery is being charged on the car and recovers it's voltage? |
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Sorry to repeat this BUT-----If you connect a charger in the same way you tried connecting another battery IT WON'T work. Either both ways work or none at all.----You have a wiring problem. Definitely !!!!------- |
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