[geeks] car question

[Amy]

On Mon, 11 Mar 2002, Kurt Mosiejczuk wrote:

> On Mon, 11 Mar 2002, Amy wrote:
>
> > hrm. i guess i'll need to buy a new battery to start the engine (the old
> > one wouldnt hold enough stuff to turn over)
>
> Very possible.  Draining a battery completely really hurts it.  And if the
> battery was at all marginal before that, it would most probably kill it.
> However... how long did you charge it?  You mentioned ten minutes, but
> for a completely dead battery that is not that long.

5, 10 minutes at most. long enough for me to smoke a cigarette..put it
that way, give you a time frame a little more approximate.

>
> > what if the jumper cables were wired wrong, in reverse? is that possible?
>
> It's possible, but I doubt that...  if you cross wired the cables and left
> it to charge for the ten minutes, something probably would have blown up.

nothing blew up, of that i am sure.

> > it never ran. it tried to turn over, but i guess it didnt have enough
> > power. it wasnt dinging (door sounds when its opened), even.
>
> If the battery couldn't power the door sounds, then the battery was way too
> weak to think about starting the car.

so its possible itll work ok if i get a new battery and put it in?

--a