never use your alternator to charge the battery. the alternator is not designed to charge a dead battery. an alternator is designed to keep the necessary functions of the car running and to give the battery a small charge to replace the charge you took off of it when you started the car. by using the alternator to charge a dead battery will cause the alternator to overheat and this will cause the life of the alternator to be short. later mark Andrew Prentis wrote: > Hi Guys, > I'm a new DeLorean owner and just have a couple of > questions about my car I hope you can help me with. > > Yesterday when I went to start my car the battery was > flat.The car hadn't been driven for a couple of > weeks.Is it normal for a DeLorean battery to go flat > in such a short time? I had to leave my > other 'normal'car for a whole month and it started up > again straight away.I drove the D for a solid hour to > charge the battery up and it started okay today.Could > there be something draining it while its not being > driven? > Also when i started it it blew a fair bit of smoke for > about 30 seconds then cleared.Smoke was pretty clear > in colour but reeked of petrol.It seems to do this > only after not being driven for a week or so.Is this > typical?Or do I have a problem? > Thanks in advance for any answers or suggestions. > Andrew Prentis > VIN 2883 > Sydney,Australia > > __________________________________________________ > Do You Yahoo!? > Yahoo! - Official partner of 2002 FIFA World Cup > http://fifaworldcup.yahoo.com > > To address comments privately to the moderating team, please address: > moderator@xxxx > > To search the archives or view files, log in at http://groups.yahoo.com/group/dmcnews > > Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/