After running perfectly well, I park up and an hour later there isn't enough juice to start up. This has happened twice now but with a long interval and change of battery between. Both occasions I had to jump start with cables. The second time was after it was parked on the ferry overnight. And this time, while the battery has recharged again, the turn indicator lights on the dash aren't working (the actual lights are), and the LCD screen is dead too.
From reading some threads here on electrical problems with RRs, it seems they're hyper sensitive. I took none of the precautions mentioned when I took out and replaced the battery, twice now, but it did run normally after I did it and didn't even need to code the radio.
I will now check the fuses. Is it ok to check the fuses just without the ignition key in or should I also disconnect the battery to do that? The last time I did it with the keys in and I think I triggered the immobiliser, but after a battery recharge everything was OK again.
Any ideas what this reoccurring problem might be - it is as if something is not switching off and running the battery down, but that doesn't explain this new dead indicator/screen issue...
I should say the new battery is 95ah, whereas the original is 110ah. Not ideal but it seems to have run Ok thus far.
Thanks in advance.
Sean
From reading some threads here on electrical problems with RRs, it seems they're hyper sensitive. I took none of the precautions mentioned when I took out and replaced the battery, twice now, but it did run normally after I did it and didn't even need to code the radio.
I will now check the fuses. Is it ok to check the fuses just without the ignition key in or should I also disconnect the battery to do that? The last time I did it with the keys in and I think I triggered the immobiliser, but after a battery recharge everything was OK again.
Any ideas what this reoccurring problem might be - it is as if something is not switching off and running the battery down, but that doesn't explain this new dead indicator/screen issue...
I should say the new battery is 95ah, whereas the original is 110ah. Not ideal but it seems to have run Ok thus far.
Thanks in advance.
Sean