Fudgey

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a mate has got a VX220, and went to take it for a drive the other day and the batt was flat.

now he tells me that on them things, you have to take the dash out to get to the battery!

what a load of shit!

anyway, you can get to the altinator, so can you just waz the +ve on the that, and the -ve on the block and jump it?

or is there another way lol?

he ended up getting the AA out

Twellsie

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does it not have a couple of posts in the engine compartment?, the Mrs' A class has got the battery under the floor on the drivers side but under the bonnet there are a couple of posts you can connect the jump leads to

pani_k

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fucking hell jump starting shouldnt be as complicated as removing a whole dash!

should be postive output in engine compartment somewhere marked with a red cap or something the just neg to engine block

FasterFords

has it got fag lighter socket ?

get a battery charger and wire it up to a fag lighter plug

Fudgey

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i asked about the posts thing - he didnt know lol

ill tell him about the fag lighter thing too.

how do you wire it up tho as they normally have clamps on the end of the chargers

AlexF

He needs to RFTM I think lol

FasterFords

either buy a fag lighter accessory plug and run some wires from it so you can put the clamps on, or find an old plugin torch or some tat you were bought for Xmas that was rubbish but had a 12v plug on it, cut the useless tat off and use the wires from that.

making sure the + - are round the right way first.

I did this on my old camper van, as I reversed it up to the garage door and couldn't get to the battery a year later when I wanted to move it

indycos

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get pushing and bump it!!!

FasterFords

RTFM do you mean ?

indycos

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dojj

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there are certain cars that you can't jump start as it fucks the electrits up so make sure it's not one of them

but there will be some +ve and -ve posts in the fuse box somewhere that you can use to do the same thing

in the vito's the battery is under the seat and you can see it but you can't actually get any clamps on because there isn't the space

TimC

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If you can get to the starter or alternator easily, just put the positive onto the posts, and earth the negative on anything suitable.

Fudgey

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cheers for the replies everyone, he should have the manual i guess, pretty sure he said it couldnt be jumped tho as the batt was under the dash

James998

Like new galaxies, wipeing the PCM.

Oopsie :P