Battery chargeing

[raccoon]

Hi everyone, hope the snow is not stopping you enjoying yourself. The cold weather and my late shifts are causing me a small bit of trouble. I am going to work in the dark and the same coming home. I have my heater on high to keep the screen free of frost. I am using the rear heated screen a lot to. My lights are on all the time to and from work. My battery does not like this much and I know why but I cannot cut down the amount of power I am using at the moment.
So I was wondering if I could put my battery charger onto the battery when its still connected to the car. It would be on a trickle charge though. I dont want to disconect the cables because I dont know the radio code and the hastle I had with my renault getting that code I dont want to go through the same thing. Any thoughts would be apreciated.

[FarmerPug]

If your cars a D9 it doesnt loose the radio code, its vin coded so as long as you dont swap your radio for another one its ok. I know that we put cars here on the farm including a toyota previa and a polo on the trickle charger and it hasnt done them any harm, i havent charged the 406 yet just replaced the battery. but if in doubt you can just disconnect a termninal, and charge the battery that way then no voltage spikes will harm the ecu.

[steve_earwig]

I hook up my optimate to my car without any issues. I suppose if it's a good regulated charger (as opposed to something cheap & nasty from Lidl) then it should be ok.

[FarmerPug]

Didnt you know that lidl brand quality is better.
The question is, exactly what is it better than?
Time for a cheesy lidl advert:
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[raccoon]

Thanks everyone. I am going out now to put it on charge.....I am going to sound thick here but I dont know what a "D9" is. My car is just a V reg 406 deisel 2ltre without the turbo.

[FarmerPug]

does the front have a honeycomb grille, is the rear lights seperated in 2 parts by a bit of plastic the colour of the bodywork, do you have a hazzard warning light up beside the speedo if yes its a D9 and it would have a HDI, if not its a D8 which most likely has an XUD as you said with no turbo.

[steve_earwig]

Eh? Did I miss something? I thought all the diesels have turbos

[FarmerPug]

all diesels need turbos, but there was some diesels back some time ago that never got any and the hateful sdi engines. But also it is a misconception by some people that the HDI engines dont have a turbo but they do.

[steve_earwig]

Let me rephrase that - all 406 diesels have turbos.

[FarmerPug]

even the xuds?

[steve_earwig]

Yep.

[FarmerPug]

Theyd need to be turbos. Is there any new cars that dont have a diesel with turbos. Because i think vw has phased out the SDI (slow dreary irritating).

[raccoon]

Hi, mine does have the honeycombe grill and the back lights that have the plastic seperation. So I guess its the D9. Thanks chaps.

[FarmerPug]

yip thats a hdi, either 90 or 110 not sure how to define the difference apart from more power and a sticker on the metal bit where the door opens saying 'hdi 110' and i think theres a big pipe there in the engine bay for the 110

[steve_earwig]

It'll be a 110, I don't think the 90s came out for a year or two after.