"Steve Daniels" <sdaniels@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote in message
news:190t14h9r14g1v63hnhkhfatamo1ua487f@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
>
> I just bought a 2004 TT, 3.2 DSG S-Line.
>
> Sounds good, right?
>
> This morning it wouldn't start because the battery didn't have
> enough power in it. I jumped it, and measured the voltage across
> the terminals. Fourteen volts, just like it's supposed to be.
>
> Turned it off, and it wouldn't start again. Put a charger on it
> for a couple of hours, and it started right up.
>
> I drove it about fifty miles, shutting it down and restarting it
> twice with no problems, but after letting it sit for an hour the
> battery was the same as it was this morning. Flat as a pancake.\
>
> I'm pretty sure my four year old car needs a new battery. What
> say you all?
>
>
> --
>
> Life is too short to play cheap guitars.
to test a battery it needs to have a load put on it..........or use a
hydrometer to test specific gravity
just go get a new one..........battery that is, not TT


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