Hello everybody it's 'Lurgs' here welcome to my channel and today it's how to charge
the battery on a Vespa GTS, now if you don't use your Vespa that often it's best to
charge your battery about once a month just to keep it in good condition, if
your battery keeps losing the charge you might have a problem with your
alternator or maybe it's time for a new battery, they only last about 4 to 5
years. Now what you're gonna need today is a motorcycle battery charger, this is
a low amperage battery charger because you don't want to overload the battery as
it's a very small battery, right let's get cracking this is my Vespa GTS 300
here and if I put the key in the ignition switch it on and then go to
start it you'll notice that it's got an absolutely dead battery, now there's a
link above now about how to jump start a Vespa GTS but for today's video we're
just going to be charging the battery, so the first thing you need to do is open
the glove box by pushing the ignition key in, take out your toolbox hopefully
you've still got your toolbox in your Vespa GTS and you're looking for the
torque screwdriver also known as the tamper proof bit, now you use this to
remove the battery cover, you've got 4 screws here you just undo those
anti-clockwise, now I'll just speed this up and there's a link above now about the
5 things that I hate about my Vespa GTS 300 it's definitely worth checking
out that video if you're thinking of buying one secondhand.
Okay so just remove this panel and there is the battery there, so what you do now
is take your motorcycle battery charger, this is a motorcycle one so it's got
small amperage, you don't want a great big chunky one because you don't want to
overload your battery, now don't plug this into the mains just yet what you
want to do is connect the clips up first, now in an ideal world you would
completely disconnect the battery from those cables but it's not absolutely
necessary as long as you've got a low amperage battery charger it should be
absolutely fine, now I'm going to put the positive [+] on first make sure you get a
nice good grip on it on the battery and
then take the negative [-] grip and put that on the negative part of the battery,
again make sure you've got a really good connection and a good grip you don't
want it to be loose, now what you can do is you can test the battery with a
multimeter and there's a link above now about how to do that, once you're happy
you've got good connections on both of those clips you can then plug your
battery charger into the mains, now depending on how flat your battery is
it's only very small so I literally just put mine on for an hour, I mean you can
leave it on overnight but it depends obviously if you have to park it outside
that's not feasible, unplug it from the mains and then unplug the clips and then
we can just start it up, absolutely fantastic, now if your battery is not
holding a charge or it keeps letting you down it's probably time for a new
battery and there's a link above now about how to replace the battery on your
Vespa GTS, then just put the battery cover back on, again I'll just speed this
up, won't need to show all of that, remember to put your toolbox back into
the glove compartment
and close that up, and then you might as well go for a little ride, really does
ride nicely the Vespa GTS 300, and there's a link above now that the things
that I love about my Vespa GTS 300, again it's definitely worth checking that
out you're thinking of buying one secondhand, I'm just on a lovely country lane here
it really is a sweet ride,
that's blown away the cobwebs.
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