Battery dead?

[A L 3 X]

Right, haven't used the car since Monday and now the battery's dead when I tried to start it about 10 mins ago, battery was bought new 1 year ago.

Now is it just the winter as it usually starts first time even left a week, or could it be this which I've recently fitted to fix my non existent main beam dah light with te hids.

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Any help would be great?

[Jhandy]

try and do a load test on the battery if you can get a load tester, wouldnt of thought it was that, because otherwise your main beam would be on all the time,

[A L 3 X]

Not sure what one of them is?

And it's strange though mate, like I say I've had this battery for a year this month, and has started after I've worked away for a week, but as I plug this in and a few days later it dies :/

This module is designed to replicate a bulb being plugged in I assume ?

[Amjad]

My battery has started playing up a week ago, even left a day the day struggles to start. Hoping it's not the alternator! Looking into those red top batteries as I run a sound system

[A L 3 X]

Ah right, let me know what you find mate? I cant see mine going after a year though, strange...

[ChrisStarletGT]

is it a halfrauds battery i hav had two in a year and a half the second went because i connected jump leads wrong way round after i left lights on blew alternator fuse and knackered battery took it back to halfords and blag a new one off em for free i know im naughty haha

[Amjad]

Will do Alex, the red top was recommended to me by Raffa on here who uses the more hench yellow top version haha. Think it's only about £68 too so not too bad if it's powerful!

The one I'm using is Halfords and it's been on the car since before I bought it (over three years) so not bad I guess but over the past year it has gone dead on maybe 5 occasions. Most of them were after leaving the car for a few weeks but lately it wouldn't start even after a day of not driving it but it seems to have remedied itself somewhat.

[A L 3 X]

Nah mines not a halfords one, I got it from a

Local motor factors

N ah I see Amjad, might be worth getting one of them

If mines knackered then

[morgey]

Take it to your local sts tyres/holburns they should have a tester and will do it for free usually

[A L 3 X]

Ah cool, can they tell if its the battery knackered or if its the hid module or can they just say its low on voltage as I have a multimeter if that helps lol?

[morgey]

I dont know about telling you if the hid modules causing it but if you take them the battery they can tell you if its fucked