flat battery while in the garrage

Foxy-Stoat_3

New batteries are around £50. Make sure your alternator is charging correctly before buying a new one.

Have they done any welding on your car for the repair, or was it a bolt on wing?

fivetide

milkymoo wrote: »

:cool:

I did not say they stole my battery!!

To be fair s b never said you had.

I just can't understand why they have not informed me about the problem when they first spoted it. They said later on the phone they had to jump started the car every single day.

Right here, they could have raised a concern if they hadn't tried to charge it but generally at idle a battery won't charge so to see if it would charge normally they might have had to drive it about a lot. Then you'd be upset they'd used all your petrol up/used it as a taxi/put miles on it.

:eek:?? So in your eyes this PERFECT garrage with QUALIFIED staff does not know how to charge the battery? They had a full month to do it, and make sure when I get a car I can acctualy drive it - straight away.
And if the battery acctualy broke down then normal thing would be to ask me if I need new one not keep it quiet.

Again, assuming they did even try to charge it which yes, they could have done. As said though, it isn't a shock to have a battery go flat when the car hasn't been driven for a while or even if it has just been started and stopped a few times. I've been on test drives where the dealer has brought out the battery booster to get the car going.

And no I do not know the age of the battery but I have never had a problem with it and do not drive it every single day. The car was off the road before for a couple of weeks and was fine. Nothing takes the power from the battery. I don't have the alarm in my car.

So how old is the car then?

So in the end I'm the one to blame, :cool::cool::cool:

MM.

No one is saying that, it is just a bit harsh to say the garage damaged or flattened it when it might simply be one of those things. Batteries die and could go at any point.

You nee to look to see if there is anything they could do to have caused it. If the battery doesn't hold the charge now you've put it back in then look at another and check the alternator too.

5t.

milkymoo

Foxy-Stoat wrote: »

New batteries are around £50.
Have they done any welding on your car for the repair, or was it a bolt on wing?

It was just the front wing, but the accident was at 60mph so anything could have gone wrong. The garrage was supossed to assess the damage and then do the repairs.
The truth is I can only assume what was they did or didn't (the battery coincidentally broke down, got damagged in the accident, or someone left the lights on, door open etc). I will never find out from the garrage.

The reaction from both the insurance company and the garrage is what annoyes me most. They didn't take into account other possibilities.

Foxy-Stoat_3

So no welding then.....I would get them to test the alternator and replace the battery as a minimum. The accident could of damaged the battery, alternator or an earth wire or it could of just been your batteries time to die.

In the short term, I would think you may have to buy a battery and either live with it or pursue the insurers for reimbursement.

wealdroam

milkymoo wrote: »

Nothing takes the power from the battery.

No clock in your car then?

That is unusual these days.

Strider590

s_b wrote: »

is this the best you can come up with at 2.14 in the morning
you are literally condemning an industry through your probable beer goggles
not nice not funny and obviously not true either

Well actually, I had stuff stolen from my car whilst it was in for bodywork repair....... But all im saying is the OP should check the battery ain't older that the car lol (that'd be dead give away).