Cosmic Fall

Quick Update: All seems fine. Brought it to a garage, and it's holding the charge fine. Cheers! CF

Thanks for all the help, jump worked a treat and it started again first time this morning. The voltage is reading around 12 so it seems okay all round. I have a 400 Mile round trip at the weekend so I think I'll pop into an Advanced Pitstop this afternoon to get them to check out the battery, just to be safe BTW as soon as I connected the leads the alarm went off and the the centre light in the cabin came on, so i'm thinking either that light was left on (dorr not closed properly?) or the alarm went off and ran down the battery. Thanks Again, CF

Thanks folks, nothing new added. If the the altenator is gone I'll be surprised coz I've had no problems at all starting it until today, and the Battery meter has always read a healthy voltage. Gonna give the jump leads a shot and pray nothing explodes Cheers!

Morning All, been on to this site a lot since I bought the IS and have found it very helpful, but it's time for my first post. Anyway, got up this morning to come into work and found that the remote central locking wasn't working, so I got the spare key to try. Again, no response. I opened the drivers door using the key and attempted to start the engine - Nothing, I mean no lights, didn't turnover, nothing. Now I assume this is a dead battery and will get one of the lads over with jump leads tonight, but the car has only been idle since Sunday evening and the battery meter was showing 3/4 then. Is there any reason that the battery would drain so quickly, and given that it has, is it safe to try jump leads? Cheers! (PS. Lights were not left on)