Battery Flat After 3 Weeks

[m1pnk]

i just got back from 3 weeks in spain....as you can imagine the Battery is as flat as a pancake....my poor ls430 missed me as much as i missed her no doubt....got a jump from a friend all ok....next morning not as charged as it should be....got neighbor to give me a jump but for about 4 seconds he put possative and negative round the wrong way....no lcd panel or ac working......and traction control warning on all the time.....no doubt a few fuses were blown in the tinkering.....of to the garage n the morning.....i do have a lexus specialist close by......fingers crossed this end

[Bigste]

Putting the jump leads wrong way gives you 24v instead of 12v. Fingers crossed there shouldn't be much damage apart from fuses.

[Geoffers]

Putting the jump leads wrong way gives you 24v instead of 12v. Fingers crossed there shouldn't be much damage apart from fuses.

The wrong way gives reverse polarity, not 24v. Jump leads in series gives 24v. (Not something you could do by accident)

Most of the electronics are protected with diodes so will short if the wrong way and blow the fuse.

I do hope the fuses apply to the bits that are faulty now and nothing more.

[DJ Wozza]

Hope it's not a costly error mate :o & just fuses

[m1pnk]

well after a sleepless night.........£20 and thanks go to Albin Motors Ltd......it was just a couple of fuses.....its the sort of thing a garage could have you over the barrel with, but all is well and my thanks again go to kevin at abm.

[Geoffers]

Phew.... and you are right - they could have made a packet out of this.

Great news.