W210: charging the battery

[Bald-Pogle]

Hi folks,

My car spends a lot of time standing still, and with winter coming I would like to have the ability to ensure that the battery is well-charged without having the aggro of getting under the rear seat to get to it. Is it possible / advisable to connect the charger elsewhere - eg the cigar lighter socket?

Any suggestions?

Thanks,

bald-pogle

 

[MB partsman]

Trickle charger from MB dealer.... part no
B67542023

 

[Arnie]

If your cigarette lighter socket is the always-on type, then yes, but I think it comes on and off with the ignition (?) Do you not have a battery post in the engine bay, that is normally used for jump-starting?

 

[Ger D]

As a matter of interest, if you're jump starting another car from your MB, should you us the Battery post in the engine bay or connect directly to the battery?

Ger

 

[landover]

As a matter of interest, if you're jump starting another car from your MB, should you us the Battery post in the engine bay or connect directly to the battery?

Ger

Use the one in engine bay Arnie just pointed that out.

 

[Bald-Pogle]

Thanks folks,

Being a simple soul, when I last needed to charge the battery that's what I looked up in the handbook - and it tells me ""disconnect the battery and remove before charging." However, in the handbook two pages on under "jump starting," I see what Arnie is referring to.

Why don't MB link the two entries in the book? I'm sure I'm not the only person who never reads a manual in full until he's in trouble

bald-pogle

 

[OlafMaxwell]

You bet you aren't. How many MB hubs are destroyed because they don't warn you abuot the wheel bolts when you replace an alloy with a steel spare after you get a puncture. For such an important thing its buried inside a book.