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Re: broken down! advice please
Posted: Thu May 05, 2011 12:19 pm
by jaylee
bigdaddycain wrote:Or another usual mystery flat battery scenario... The boot light NOT going out when the boot closes... Not applicable to the bongo of course.
Funny you mention that Ste... The Nissan garage when referring to my wife's all singing/dancing Micra... "Did she leave the lights on"?? It has a lights on alarm...!
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I even pulled the rear seats forward to check the boot light went off.
The odd thing is, we had this car from new for 7 years, & apart from the usual circle check i have never taken an interest in it! Especially not in the last 4
Re: broken down! advice please
Posted: Thu May 05, 2011 12:22 pm
by bigdaddycain
jaylee wrote:bigdaddycain wrote:Or another usual mystery flat battery scenario... The boot light NOT going out when the boot closes... Not applicable to the bongo of course.
Funny you mention that Ste... The Nissan garage when referring to my wife's all singing/dancing Micra... "Did she leave the lights on"?? It has a lights on alarm...!
I even pulled the rear seats forward to check the boot light went off.
The odd thing is, we had this car from new for 7 years, & apart from the usual circle check i have never taken an interest in it! Especially not in the last 4
I wonder why?
Re: broken down! advice please
Posted: Thu May 05, 2011 12:27 pm
by jaylee
I think they may be now owned by/or an "alliance" with Renault.?
Re: broken down! advice please
Posted: Thu May 05, 2011 12:34 pm
by g8dhe
Another cause, my son just had was the Glove compartment light not going out ...... Of course the light comes on when you open it doesn't it, so we had to check the light like one does a fridge just to make sure it was going out.... it wasn't.
Re: broken down! advice please
Posted: Thu May 05, 2011 3:39 pm
by bigdaddycain
Good tip Geoff! I've got to ask though... How did you determine the light wasn't extinguishing?
Re: broken down! advice please
Posted: Thu May 05, 2011 3:40 pm
by bigdaddycain
Doesn't matter... i've worked it out... Feel if the light is warm when the glovebox has been left closed
Re: broken down! advice please
Posted: Thu May 05, 2011 3:47 pm
by alant54
bigdaddycain wrote:Good tip Geoff! I've got to ask though... How did you determine the light wasn't extinguishing?
That's like asking how do you know your fridge light at home goes out if you are not sitting in the fridge....?.....
Sorry guys...being a bit flippant at the moment....
Alan
Re: broken down! advice please
Posted: Thu May 05, 2011 3:52 pm
by rita
alant54 wrote:bigdaddycain wrote:Good tip Geoff! I've got to ask though... How did you determine the light wasn't extinguishing?
That's like asking how do you know your fridge light at home goes out if you are not sitting in the fridge....?.....
Sorry guys...being a bit flippant at the moment....
Alan
A pal of mine put his mobile phone on video then in the fridge for a few seconds,played it back and the light did go out.
Amazing.
Cheers
Re: broken down! advice please
Posted: Thu May 05, 2011 3:59 pm
by alant54
rita wrote:alant54 wrote:bigdaddycain wrote:Good tip Geoff! I've got to ask though... How did you determine the light wasn't extinguishing?
That's like asking how do you know your fridge light at home goes out if you are not sitting in the fridge....?.....
Sorry guys...being a bit flippant at the moment....
Alan
A pal of mine put his mobile phone on video then in the fridge for a few seconds,played it back and the light did go out.
Amazing.
Brilliant solution....now we all know how to do it....
Cheers
Re: broken down! advice please
Posted: Thu May 05, 2011 4:51 pm
by g8dhe
bigdaddycain wrote:Doesn't matter... i've worked it out... Feel if the light is warm when the glovebox has been left closed
That was it! Nothing that clever once we thought to look!
Re: broken down! advice please
Posted: Thu May 05, 2011 7:59 pm
by scanner
alant54 wrote:bigdaddycain wrote:Good tip Geoff! I've got to ask though... How did you determine the light wasn't extinguishing?
That's like asking how do you know your fridge light at home goes out if you are not sitting in the fridge....?.....
Sorry guys...being a bit flippant at the moment....
Alan
It's easy..................
........................... you set a camera to <flash off> and <self timer> then press shutter release and place it in the Fridge/glove box.
Wait 15 secs and take camera out - if you have a picture the light was on.
PS this is much quicker process if you use a digital camera instead of a film one.
