My 19-year-old little car (aka the Ecosystem) is not very glamorous, and admittedly not very well maintained. I sometimes am a bit negligent with maintenance, and sometimes that causes trouble (like here and here, although the latter was in a way because of maintenance, not a lack thereof). And I don't clean it very often on the inside, and never on the outside. One would think that all cars around it outperform it. Not necessarily so.
When, after our cleaning spree, Neil wanted to go home, his car was having none of that. It treated him like a burglar. It wouldn't let him in, and the alarm went off. And, quite eerily, there was strange thumping sound by the boot.
He first wondered if the battery of his key fob might have been empty. But that wasn't it. A bit of googling got him in. More googling suggested maybe it was the car battery. If that was the problem, he should be able to jumpstart it. So I drove my little car as close as possible to his. He has jump leads.
It worked! My geriatric little car had enough power in the battery to jumpstart his engine. If the weather wouldn't have been so atrocious, maybe I would have taken a picture of the situation. Neil could drive home, where, just to be on the safe side, he charged the battery further using a plug-in charger. And the next day, everything was fine again.
We still have no idea at the time of writing what the scary thumping sound was. What on earth was that, and why would an empty battery cause it? I'm sure someone knows. Not me though. But I was proud that my little old car could revive his much, much newer, well-maintained and gleaming Ford!
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| My charger, not Neil’s |
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