{"id":511,"date":"2008-11-02T22:04:54","date_gmt":"2008-11-02T22:04:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/west-penwith.org.uk\/blog\/?p=511"},"modified":"2014-04-11T18:27:58","modified_gmt":"2014-04-11T17:27:58","slug":"haywire","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/west-penwith.org.uk\/blog\/archives\/511","title":{"rendered":"Haywire"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Friday I left work a bit early hoping to get down to Cornwall in good time. Just as I left the car park I stalled. Well perhaps I didn&#8217;t give it quite enough welly but no matter&mdash;but it wouldn&#8217;t start again.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/west-penwith.org.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/images\/theaa.gif\" alt=\"The AA\" class=\"alignright\" \/>Removing and replacing the key, everything went haywire; warning lights flashing and flickering, relays clicking and dials jumping and showing random values. Oh help, this looks expensive, but I have to get away so ring <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theaa.com\/\">the AA<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>After only 45 minutes, during which I ring home and explain, a yellow van arrives. The AA man tries it, and thinks, and scratches his head and thinks that perhaps the battery is flat. A meter only shows about 10 volts so out come the jump leads. No luck, it just seems to be soaking it up and losing it. So he suggests trying a new battery&mdash;Bingo.<\/p>\n<p>What seems to have happened is that a cell has shorted internally and 10v is just not enough to run the electronics, let along start the car. So, new battery paid for, I am off on my way and only about an hour late.<\/p>\n<p>Thanks very nice man.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Friday I left work a bit early hoping to get down to Cornwall in good time. Just as I left the car park I stalled. Well perhaps I didn&#8217;t give it quite enough welly but no matter&mdash;but it wouldn&#8217;t start again. Removing and replacing the key, everything went haywire; warning lights flashing and flickering, relays [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":239,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-511","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-motoring"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/west-penwith.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/511","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/west-penwith.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/west-penwith.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/west-penwith.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/239"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/west-penwith.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=511"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/west-penwith.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/511\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1758,"href":"https:\/\/west-penwith.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/511\/revisions\/1758"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/west-penwith.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=511"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/west-penwith.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=511"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/west-penwith.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=511"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}