I haven't been on the forum for some time now, what with not actually owning a SEAT any more - or there being one in the extended "Family Fleet" However
@BillyCool triggered my notifications a couple of days ago by "liking" a post I made when we were looking for a replacement for my younger boy's work estate car - He's a self employed sign-writer specialising in vehicle liveries so finds a lot of his work is carried out at his customer's premises. An estate car fills this need well and he can still use it for family trips. We'd pretty much settled on a Leon estate hence the first post in that thread. Anyway, as he ended up with an Audi A4 Avant (estate) and I hadn't updated the thread, I did so. Then just went for an extended "wander" around the forum and posts I'd made. Came across this one and thought an update might be of interest?
I'll assume someone might be interested in how I got on with my Capacitor type jump starter? So here goes. Immediately after buying it I just "messed about" with it in my workshop. I was wondering about how well it would charge from a well depleted battery and found it charged satisfactorily from the old battery I'd removed about a year previously from my older boy's Punto. This battery wouldn't crank the Fiat but did fully charge the Streetwize pack. I'm well known around our area for being someone who "knows about cars" and, in the interests of good relations, I encourage family and neighbours to ask for
help and advice if they think I can. Consequently I've now jumped about 8 or 9 cars for people. The last one was a 1.4
Ibiza Toca with a battery so flat it didn't even "tickle" the solenoid. It was raining heavily and it's a car I know - belongs to my neighbour across the road - and just isn't used enough to keep the battery properly charged. I didn't bother doing battery checks first because we were getting soaked. Just tried the starter on the key, it didn't even click, so I don't know what voltage it was showing. Connected up the Streetwize and pushed the green button. it took about 2 or 3 minutes to fully charge the pack. pushed the green button again, it counted down, displayed "discharging" and we turned the key. The engine cranked very vigorously and started almost immediately. This has been my experience of using it on every vehicle I've tried it on so far, including my friend's V6 Jag (which I've now jumped twice for him) He really needs to give it to an electrician to sort out what I think is a parasitic drain. There's not been one it wouldn't charge from and starting has been almost immediate in every case. No-one has, so far, come back to me reporting any subsequent problems (which might have been an indicator the pack had caused damage to electronics etc). The biggest test it's had so far was on a 1.9 TDI Passat. I was interested to see how it would cope with the initial high current drain from the glow plugs and whether this would deplete the device to the extent that it wouldn't have enough left for cranking the engine? But none of it! spun the engine over very well and started it almost instantly. They do claim it will start up to 8litre capacity petrol and diesel engines:
https://www.streetwizeaccessories.c...tarters/N-Capacitor-Jump-Starter-Green-SWPP20 I bought mine at big discount - almost half price - from Argos.
To say I'm delighted with it is an understatement. It's going to be very interesting to see how well it functions as it ages, but initial results have been beyond expectation.
