On May 23, 5:02*pm, "Dave Liquorice"
wrote:
On Fri, 23 May 2008 05:39:41 -0700 (PDT), Pete C wrote:
Had *exactly* this before myself, it /can/ be a classic symptom of
oxidised battery clamp connections.

The normal give away of a high impedance connection after trying to start
a car with a sudden "dead" battery is a warm or hot (be careful)
connection.

In my case the terminals weren't warm at all.

Bad clamp/post connections can also mean the battery does't get
charged properly and ends up being misdiagnosed as a bad battery and/
or fails due to undercharging.

cheers,
Pete.