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Re: [T3] car won't start


Like Jim said, do a s-l-o-wwwww trickle charge. Sometimes a battery can
be charged like this if left charging for a week or two.
Tom
'68 FB (Thumper)
'70 Bug

On Sat, 22 Aug 1998 00:25:28 EDT TOASTEDT3@aol.com writes:
>Today Matt and I decided to clean up the wrecked 71 squareback...so we 
>pushed
>it out of the garage and jump started it with Matt's GTi.  We assumed 
>it
>needed to be jumped because it has sat for over 4 1/2 months not being 
>driven
>(since the accident).  It had been started and driven around at the 
>shop it
>sat at until it ran out of gas, and then it probably sat idle for 2 
>weeks to 1
>month.  When we jumped it the first time today, we had to rev the GTi 
>motor to
>get the squareback to start.  We drove it and let it run for a few 
>minutes,
>but when I turned it off it would not start again.  The tach needle 
>moves, but
>the motor does not turn over and no dash lights come on.  We jumped it 
>again,
>and this time it started right away, with no revving of the GTi.  This 
>time we
>let it sit and idle for a good hour while we attempted to install a 
>lovely
>non-fitting aftermarket antenna on the 71 notch.  When I turned off 
>the square
>after an hour of running, it had no power again.  The tach needle 
>moves,
>that's it.  Is this a bad generator?  I have had 3 bad batteries in a 
>row, and
>took it to a reputable repair shop every time and had the full tests 
>for draws
>and bad generators, and it always turned out to be the battery not 
>holding a
>charge.  Also, I really doubt this has anything to do with the 
>problem, but
>the car has no front fenders (accident again), so the headlight/turn 
>signal
>wires are just laying in the trunk.  Some had to be cut to get the 
>driver's
>side fender off since it was mushed back so far.  Any ideas as to 
>what's
>wrong?  We really hate having to jump the car every time we want to 
>start
>it...it's probably something simple, but I don't even know where to 
>start
>looking.  
>Thanks
>
>Katie and Matt
>60 kombi
>71 squareback
>71 notchback
>92 GTi
>
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