Quote Originally Posted by JohnnyVtec View Post
why not just pull the battery out and take it to supercheap to have them test it? Obviously the cca's are low and your battery may not be salvagable at this point. The battery for that car requires a fairly high amount of cold cranking amps 430 or so, in order to turn over the high compression ratio engine.


Should cost you 80-180 depending on the quality battery you get.

If you luck out with push starting or jump starting it (not always likely to work) there's a good chance that the cells wont have the ablity to produce the amps required to retain the use of your battery any longer.

It's best to drive the car on the motorway if you're trying to charge the battery via the alternator. If you know the car is going to be sitting for a while. One of the most common and effective ways to prevent the battery from draining cell life is to dis-connect the negative terminal clamp on the battery.


Hope this helps,
thanks alot for the useful info

I jump started the car last nite and it started fine... so i pretty much got worried for nothing...

I wasn't aware that a fairly new battery could lose power so quickly .. I drove the car around for about 20mins every 4-5 days to stop this from happening ... now i realise it wasn't enough to keep the battery charged.