Starting problem

[madasafish]

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Internal light left on over the weekend, it must be my age.

Wait till you get really old...(I'm not : just the body of a fifteen year old in the mind of an OAP.. or is it the other way round? )

[Eddie Honda]

Well I came back in the middle of the night from work in one of my other cars to find the Jazz's centre interior light on in the dark.

Cause? 3 year-old playing with the switch earlier in the day. (No Senior citizens having senior moments round here )

No flat battery though.

[Garyman]

My 5.5 years old GE recently didn't start one morning and thought my battery was on its way out, but after jump starting the car, did I realise that the hazard lights had been left on all night, as my 1.5 yr old son had been playing in the car the previous night and neither the wife nor I had noticed they were left on Doh !

[culzean]

According to data from breakdown services the most common causes of call-out are battery problems and tyre problems / punctures (many people will not repair a puncture / replace a wheel, either because they don't have a spare / don't know how / don't want to get their hands dirty). A significant number of calls are classified as 'driver error' where there is no fault with vehicle.

They reckon people now are much less car savvy than previous generations and don't even do any basic checks on their car any more, even down to very basic checking engine oil level, coolant level, tyre pressure etc..  Probably because they don't have a mobile phone app that will do it all for them LOL

www.rac.co.uk/pdfs/report-on-motoring/breakdown-britain-report-2006.aspx