Proudfoot
Well-known member
Ok, little background time:
My friend is in Africa so I'm car sitting for her. Though that part is unnecessary, what it means is that the car has sat for the last 5 months now, and I just picked it up today performing some serious rockstar towing moves up my windy back alley with barely an 1" of clearance on either side.
Ok enough with all the superfluous filler stuff...
So, its a '99 bug. I was told that when I re-connect the battery the alarm would be going off and just deal with it, so I re-connected it, sure enough, that thing's loud. But, the car wouldn't start either. Not even a sound. I went there over the weekend to pick it up the first time, but the battery had been sitting for too long, and was drained. After about 15 mins of being hooked up to my dodge (2 batteries, plenty of CCA's) to charge a bit, the starter still wouldn't even try to turn, just a clicking sound coming from the headlight switch area (starter solenoid?). Interestingly though, it was not doing the alarm thing then, maybe not enough juice?
Well, being sunday the neighbor was home and I was kind of disturbing his party with me revving up my truck, so he was nice enough to lend me a trickle charger, anyway the battery is now charged.
Is this something that anyone has ever run into? Is it the kind of thing where everyone will just say "VCDS." Is there anyone in the SF bay area that has the correct VCDS that is willing to make a little time? Little trade in homebrewed beer to even it all out???
My friend is in Africa so I'm car sitting for her. Though that part is unnecessary, what it means is that the car has sat for the last 5 months now, and I just picked it up today performing some serious rockstar towing moves up my windy back alley with barely an 1" of clearance on either side.
Ok enough with all the superfluous filler stuff...
So, its a '99 bug. I was told that when I re-connect the battery the alarm would be going off and just deal with it, so I re-connected it, sure enough, that thing's loud. But, the car wouldn't start either. Not even a sound. I went there over the weekend to pick it up the first time, but the battery had been sitting for too long, and was drained. After about 15 mins of being hooked up to my dodge (2 batteries, plenty of CCA's) to charge a bit, the starter still wouldn't even try to turn, just a clicking sound coming from the headlight switch area (starter solenoid?). Interestingly though, it was not doing the alarm thing then, maybe not enough juice?
Well, being sunday the neighbor was home and I was kind of disturbing his party with me revving up my truck, so he was nice enough to lend me a trickle charger, anyway the battery is now charged.
Is this something that anyone has ever run into? Is it the kind of thing where everyone will just say "VCDS." Is there anyone in the SF bay area that has the correct VCDS that is willing to make a little time? Little trade in homebrewed beer to even it all out???