FTO AUSTRALIA

Hey Guys,

Had to leave my car undriven for awhile and now i have a flat battery. Is it possible to jump start it without causing any damage ? If i do jump start it will this solve the problem after driving it for a couple of hours or will it just go flat again overnight ??

If im up for a new battery what size/sort should i be getting ?

Hey Barfy, I'm not a huge fan of jump starting FTOs as I've had a bad experience jump starting another car from mine.

I would recommend that you use an AC charger to recharge your battery. They only cost $20 or so and you never know when they'll come in handy.

as for if the battery will hold its charge ... that depends on if the battery is caput or not. If it is really old then it won't hold it's charge well. But if you have the car running it should be enough to get you to a battery retailer.

Failing that let me know ... I can always drive you to a battery retailer

Let us know how you go.

Luca

Luca wrote:Failing that let me know ... I can always drive you to a battery retailer

Such a nice guy.

Hey Ph3var,

Nice paint job ... how much did that cost you?

$0

The joys of having a best mate whos a painter and another mate who owns a P&P shop.

Would normally cost about $5000

Lucky bugger.

I'm looking at respraying my car too ... but I don't have mates in the industry.

Anyway ... looks really good mate.

Barfy: Sorry for hyjacking your thread

The joys of having a best mate whos a painter and another mate who owns a P&P shop.

Think he could do us a group buy? Can just see it now, 50 fto's turn up for a respray

I would drive from sydney for that !! lets see group buy with around 10% off each,
10% off $0 is.... $0 !!!

I will metion it to him if you pay for his flight to you and give him food beer and a bed im sure he will do it

yep, I am happy to host him in my place, here in Melbourne.
lots of beer, wine, bbq, what ever he wants.
In fact, I will take him to Bar20 for a big night too.

is bar20 from your avatar ?

hehhehe Bar20=Adult Entertainment Center hahaahah

Hey guys,

Ive finally got a new battery but since its been sitting there without a battery i would say that the ECU has been reset. So when i drive it for the first time do i just drive and normal or be alittle easy on her ?

just drive like u normally do so yr FTO can get use driving.

just drive like u normally do so yr FTO can get use driving.

barfy wrote:Hey guys,

Ive finally got a new battery but since its been sitting there without a battery i would say that the ECU has been reset. So when i drive it for the first time do i just drive and normal or be alittle easy on her ?

I actually take it to the mivec range as much as possible every time I reset the ECU. So the ECU will learn to respond better when I need the "kick in/kick down" during corner, accelerate, & over take

If you take it easy, the ecu will hesitate when you really need that extra “boostâ€

i thought yr not suppose to trash a new car for the first 5000kms!

Not all cars does these days, those which need to are usually the cheapy $13,999 drive away, most of the new cars would have already done the run in the factory, and hint why some of them don’t due in for the first service until 15,000 km

Well i took it for a drive last night and after she had warmed up i had her in the mivec range as much as possible. So it sounds like i did the right thing