recharge batery from terminals under bonet???

[sherry]

Hi.

I have a flat bettery as it has been siting for a few weeks and i have an lpg tank in the boot so it will be a nightmare to remove the battery to recharge it.

Can i recharge the battery by connecting it to the terminals under the bonnet?

thank you.

[Helmuth]

Yes you can. Problem is only that completely flat batteries will not hold the charge as good as new ones. But that is a different story.

Good luck

[sherry]

ah thats great. thank you :O)

[motordavid]

Cake; be sure to attach pos/red first, then neg.
The pos is under the snap open cover...the neg is a lug
on the seam of the top inner fender.

I charge my batt with a floating/maintenance charger through those lugs,
all the time.
GL, mD

[sherry]

great! thank you :O)

[julezw]

I charge via engine terminals using a ctek charger = less fuss

[Clockwork]

ctek 3300 is the way to go!!

[dlclarke]

One more vote for CTEK

[omodos]

hi to all ctek users, are you all happy with the chargers? planning to get a CTEK mxs 5.0 tomorrow for the X5, ok to be frank was tempted to sit and wait around for a charger 1/4 of the price to hit the shelves of Lidl (pretty big supermarket chain in europe) BUT cant wait for 2 months, plus happy paying extra for the CTEK seeing as so many people are happy with them....reading this post also made me confident I can connect to the jump post to charge battery...(as for recon mode i will play safe and remove battery altogether unless others have done a recon via the jump start posts?)

heres the other cheaper charger that i may pickup as a backup

http://www.lidl-service.com/static/2844174/52513_DK.pdf

[Freestyler]

I have this exact one -besides my trusted CTEK. And this one does not do what the CTEK does.
It is a very cheap made charger. And apart from the also very cheap price, i doubt that you will be happy with it.