[Healeys] Non-Healey related batteries issue

[simon.lachlan at alexarevel.plus.com]

Some free advice would be much appreciated…….

I am in France, so out of touch with my normal garages/suppliers etc etc……Thus more out of touch than usual.

So, my brother-in-law has bought an electric scooter. A fine looking big thing that reminds me of the Honda Spacey that my wife occasionally used about 25 years ago. A two seater.

This thing is two years old, +/-, so let’s say that the batteries are 30 months old. 

He bought the bike for €1 so it was hardly a great investment. (Delivery cost him an expensive bottle of red!).

The batteries seem to be quite dead, useless. I’d call that very odd. Apparently the PO was a bit of an ass and didn’t look after bike or batteries at all well.

Nevertheless, stone dead so soon?

I seem to recall a discussion on this list some years back that pertained to similar batteries. Are they dead or merely sleeping?? Plugging in the charger does nothing. Is there not something clever that one can do to jolt these things back to life? 

A new set of batteries is +/-€1000:00 which seems a bit disproportionate in the circs?

Any ideas would be gratefully received…..

Thanks,

Simon

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