[s-cars] Temp and Fuel Gauge not functioning after battery charge

[Taka Mizutani]

Yeah,
I don't use anything other than one of the latest microprocessor-controlled
battery chargers these days- it was expensive for a consumer-level product
($150 or so), but I've not yet fried a battery with it.

I keep my vette on a Battery Tender Jr., which is a plug-in
microprocessor-controlled battery maintainer, which helps a lot- the car has
quite a lot of draw sitting parked due to all of the electronics in the car.
If your car sits for long periods, I highly recommend getting one of these-
they have a setup where you can attach a small cable to your battery
semi-permanently and then you can just "plug-in" the maintainer when you
park the car.

Taka


On Mon, Jul 13, 2009 at 10:01 AM, Lewis Consulting <
lewisconsulting at sasktel.net> wrote:

>  Taka said:
> I think if you didn't use a proper battery tender/maintainer and left it
> too long, you might have killed the battery as well as some electrical stuff
> in your car.
>
> First thing- disconnect the negative lead from the battery, let the car sit
> for a while. Then check the state of the battery with it disconnected from
> the car. Then try hooking it back up, see what happens. If you don't have
> any change, you might have caused damage to your car. If you have the
> Bentley manuals and VAG-COM, you should be able to address all of the
> control modules in the car to see if you have any fault codes stored. That
> would be a start.
>
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> Thanks Taka ……I will try that, I do suspect it is time to throw my old
> charger away.  Battery seems to be holding a charge so far, but I haven’t
> driven very much.  All my fuses seem to be okay also.
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> Randy
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