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Diesels need more power than a petrol engine to turn them over, hence the batteries are always bigger (and more expensive) than the equivalent size petrol engine.
You also need decent thick jump leads to be truly effective otherwise you are wasting your time. The clicking noise you heard when trying to start it is the starter solenoid kicking in but there wasn't enough power to turn the engine over.
Be careful with cheap jump leads and missing teeth. You could melt the leads and maybe even blow a battery up and you certainly don't want to do that, Alan.
Which is exactly why I bought the heaviest set of leads I could find. And they do work. "Normal" Halfords ones will get nowhere. Hope you get it started.
Well, even though the panel says the battery Good it still doesn't want to know. There is no clicking noise now, the lights on the dashboard all come on now but it will just not turn enough. Even bought new jump leads as the current ones were falling to bits !!
Decided to call it a day and let it charge overnight properly and hopefully leave early in the morning. Disappointed but that will teach us to be complacent.
Local garages have closed now for xmas so to call any one out now would be too expensive. So annoyed that CaravanGuard do not include Homestart. If we had the van parked at a storage site they would attend ...........
Do you have a multimeter or can you borrow one or nip out and buy one, then you can monitor the battery voltage which will help you know the state of charge, and indeed which battery you are charging.
After an hour and a half, if a charge was going in I would have expected more that just lights on the dash lighting, but then I don't know what charger your van is equipped with. No click is ominous as that would have been your starter trying to engage, which you say it's not now doing.
To get a useful voltage reading the charger will need to be switched off and left off for around half an hour.
Is there any indication as to how many amps of charge your battery is taking on your control panel? I assume when you say your battery shows as good it does not give the actual voltage?
A little further investigation now may prevent disappointment tomorrow. Do you have any mechanically minded friends who could help, Alan.
Next morning ( 0530 hrs !!) the control panel in the van said the battery was Good so we tried to start. Absolutely nothing.........
We ended up throwing everything that was packed in the van into the car and just left it. Ended up sleeping in grandaughters bed (oowwh!)and a hotel room for the last night.
Came back yesterday and have had another look at the van in day light. The battery is charged but when trying to turn the key the padlock symbol comes up on the dashboard which according to the manual says the immobiliser is on ! Looks like when we have been thinking the batter is not charging etc it was actually the immobliser preventing us. So the next question is, did the original draining of the battery cause this to occur and if so how do we get round this ? We do have a Peugout dealer about 10 miles away which we can contact but wondered if anyone can point us in the right direction as what to expect.
Sorry to sound so ignorant but neither of us are machincally minded
On our Swift, the immobiliser cut in when the battery went flat and we had to take it off using the code supplied - not an easy process as it required entering a specific number of "clicks" on the remote locking/unlocking device. After a while we managed it......
Good luck, but it does sound that something needs checking as to why it went like that, I know that if I leave the alarm switched on the battery is flat within 3 weeks.........
hence I fitted a small solar panel to keep it topped up - the vehicle is parked facing South and even in the UK it kep[t it OK over last winter.
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