Mini-drama with flat battery/ car in very narrow garage

Cant you just pop the bonnet and charge it from under there with your battery charger ?

Charge batteries through engine compartments positive terminal and adjacent ground nut. Without mains in the near you can also try to jump start from there. My experience with jumpstarting through the engine compartment terminals is so so - with a flat battery you should charge through front terminals for a couple of minutes where the donor car is at elevated idle at the minimum.

Cheers
Reinhard

If you have mains power in the garage it is not a bad idea to leave a trickle charger on during the low usage months.

I also do a maintenance charger that will recharge the batteries and then maintain them through the cigar lighter socket.

CTEK XS-7000 ( inteligent charger ). We are using it every time the car sits for a while at the garage, and no troubles with batteries

Where are you in London as I have a jump pack you can borrow,

Speaking of chargers.
Do you have any exp with Ctek?
I bougth a msx 10 one and when I use the repair battery option it hasnt worked yet like I would expect.

As said in a previous post, yes, i have some expertise with a CTEK... I bought a XS-3600, but despite it had the required power to maintain both batteries at the same time, it was too tight... so, bought the XS-7000 and it is able to load and maintain both batteries ( 95Ah ) without troubles...

Regarding repair... well, the chargers are not able to "repair" a battery when it had gone beyond its expected working time...

So this so called repair option.
When does it work.
Also I had this situation that on my car from standing over the summer the battery had cone completely empty.
The ctek didnt even start to charge it.
Also can you just connect the Ctek under the hood and charge both the batteries like you would be doing one?

Zitat von Fatandre;107845

So this so called repair option.
When does it work.
Also I had this situation that on my car from standing over the summer the battery had cone completely empty.
The ctek didnt even start to charge it.
Also can you just connect the Ctek under the hood and charge both the batteries like you would be doing one?

Mine has been able to fully reload some batteries after they discharged with no major issues... but it took some time.. ( almost a day ).
Also, was able to "repair" some other ones, that were in working condition but "sulphated" ( if translates )... but some other ones it was unable as the battery was dead... ( the CTEK throws a red light after a while ).

Regarding your last question... a photo taken just now...

Just to second dudu's remarks, I have a Ctek clone battery tender, it's connected to the charging poles just as Dudu's one is and it happily keeps the batteries in good condition.

Without mains power in your garage the best you can do to overcome longer periods of inactivity is disconnect both batteries at their common ground near the left tail light.
A lead battery that has been deep discharged (say below 10V) is regularly a case for the recycling yard. Even though a pulse cycling charging device may reduce the amount of sulfation it will not be able to "'repair" the damage done. As a net result the battery will not have the specced Ah anymore and even just appear to hold charge but breaking down quickly.
As a rule of thumb a deep discharged battery will only lead to trouble
Cheers
Reinhard

Zitat von Fatandre;107845

So this so called repair option. When does it work.

Reconditioning can bring back some life in old batteries, but don't expect miracles. If the battery is too far gone, nothing will bring it back to life. You can use the reconditioning after a battery was discharged too far, but if this happens a few times just replace the battery. Lead acid batteries don't take deep discharges very well. It's better to prevent deep discharges by attaching the CTEK charger (in normal mode) each time you will not drive the car for more than a couple of days. That should maximize battery life.

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Also I had this situation that on my car from standing over the summer the battery had cone completely empty. The ctek didnt even start to charge it.

Perhaps you did not switch on the charger? The CTEK MXS 10 charger has 5 modes: off, normal, AGM, reconditioning and supply. I forgot, but it's possible the charger starts up the first time in the off mode. You'll have to press the mode button (once) to switch to normal mode (car symbol). The next time you use the charger it will remember the last used mode and start up with it.

Zitat von Fatandre;107845

So this so called repair option.
When does it work.
Also I had this situation that on my car from standing over the summer the battery had cone completely empty.
The ctek didnt even start to charge it.

If a battery reads zero volts the Ctek won't even know its connected so won't do anything, had this with someones battery last year. I have never seen a battery with a zero reading before so I thought it was a goner for sure, once charged it was ok and its still going.

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If a battery reads zero volts the Ctek won't even know its connected so won't do anything, had this with someones battery last year. I have never seen a battery with a zero reading before so I thought it was a goner for sure, once charged it was ok and its still going.

That might have been the reason.
I had the receipt and got it replaced since it was only 1 year old.

I have the Ctek XS7000 too, had it for 4-5 years.
I have the quick disconnect plug on my left battery though, works well.

Reconditioning will help if you suffer from battery memory effect, however it's a greater chance one or more cells have shorted when a battery fail now a days.