What do you guys do about your car battery, if you're in lockdown ?
I know if I don't start my ST for a week, the alarm starts going off at random intervals, as the battery goes flat. I'm parked out on the road, so I can't easily disconnect it, which would then leave it with no alarm.
Anyway, here's mine, after a good clean.
I’ve got the Monaro on a trickle charger, it remains on this most of the year. My ST225 is now on a trickle charger with leads (extended post trickle charger) from the garage to also keep it topped up. I have wondered if taking it out for a 1-2 mile drive would count as exercise!
Boredom has struck however, Friday I changed the O/S wing mirror as the old one had a crack and a few bits broken from the black plastic.
Yesterday I plugged the LED bulbs into the vacant sockets in the footwell, I guess it was just down to money saving or making money at dealerships given it was a dealer fit option to plug two bulbs in.
Today I might clean the Focus, the roads around Oxford are terrible, especially with the construction work going on.
I’m looking for a better exhaust as the standard one is somewhat restricted, the Mountune exhausts have shot up in value on eBay and they are impossible to source from the Mountune online shop. Given I’m running the MP260 map it’d be nice to stick with the brand, and on my old 225 it sounded good. The old one had to go as the gearbox destroyed itself one gear at a time until I was unable to reverse out of a space at work and had to be towed to a dealership. The dealership bought the car from me and I bought a new 2010 MK2.5 for the same price with a working reverse camera, NAV, climate (or whatever acronym Ford use) and auto lights & wipers. In ice white which seems to be quite a rare colour.
I had a sunroof on the old one but it was a pointless option added on as it was a demonstrator so all options were fitted. I’ll be getting the wheels resprayed when I can safely venture out. I had the tyres changed a couple of weeks ago, pre lockdown. Did a few changes using ELM config last week.
A full service is planned at some point when the dealerships begin to open again. I’m also looking at changing the wing mirrors to those on the RS, folding and have puddle lighting, but that’s when I can be bothered, no rush.
