Using a battery charger/conditioner

[Rick H]

Mine has a supplied two pin plug coming off the battery into the boot area just plug in and leave on all the time. :-D

Yep same.

[mattCSLnut]

I bought the brand new ctek mxs 5 last night so I can hook it up without having to disconnect the terminals. £61 delivered for a quality piece of kit, I decided not to risk a LIDL £12.99 unit on my car

A very wise move my friend :thumbs: My Cecil has been CTEKed Setember to April for the past 4 winters while hibernating :smt015

[sjb]

A very wise move my friend :thumbs: My Cecil has been CTEKed Setember to April for the past 4 winters while hibernating :smt015

I think I've made the right decision :hahaha: and a 5 year warranty? That's quality :thumbs:

[mattCSLnut]

I think I've made the right decision :hahaha: and a 5 year warranty? That's quality :thumbs:

:smt023

[JBird]

Due to my current garage situation, i'm going to have to remove the battery from the car and charge it in a different room :banghead: . Have not done this before. Will it be straight forward when I put the battery back in in a few months, or am I gonna get warning lights or something? Presumably its no different to temporarily disconecting the battery when working on the car??? Have done this before but only ever for an hour or so.

[Marv968]

Question for those with battery conditioners - If have the lead of my CTEK coming up through the boot, then the boot compartment lights stay on. I take it there's a way round this?

Marv

[sjb]

This is how I do mine but I'm sure the lights are timed and go off after a little while?

[shimmy]

Shut the boot over the lead

[Sailorbaz]

Shut the boot over the lead

What he said.

[Das Chin]

exactly what i do and never had issues

got the ctek 5 thingy. Was great over winter.

[CraigMillwardCroft]

Never had an issue with mine :thumbs:

[Marv968]

Thanks for the advice, everyone!

I tried carefully closing the boot on the lead, I didn't Iike how it kinked the lead though.

I waited a while longer and the lights did go off, after a while.

I've had my CTEK for yonks now. Brilliant thing, and I credit it for keeping the battery on my Golf working for over 12yrs and my 968 battery is still going strong after 6 years. They pay for themselves, by the fact that you don't end up replacing batteries every 3 years.

[Paulgreatheadcsl]

Could someone help I bought the BMW battery charger last year not really used it properly so just want to make sure I'm using it right, brand new battery maybe two years ago but with the car not being used I need to get this charger on and bring the battery back to life :banghead:. Can someone tell me if I put the setting onto normal or lithium iron? Its the correct battery from BMW and I haven't a clue which it is. Sorry for the really stupid question.

[Mark CSL]

Could someone help I bought the BMW battery charger last year not really used it properly so just want to make sure I'm using it right, brand new battery maybe two years ago but with the car not being used I need to get this charger on and bring the battery back to life :banghead:. Can someone tell me if I put the setting onto normal or lithium iron? Its the correct battery from BMW and I haven't a clue which it is. Sorry for the really stupid question.

The CSL uses a Normal battery
The lithiun batterys are in the newer bmws :thumbs:

[Paulgreatheadcsl]

Brill thanks Mark another question I did notice/Hurd the battery bubbling? Safe to plug the charger back on guessing charge from boot too.