My First Total Shutdown!!!

Today at 14:30 after leaving the car parked for about 20 minutes returned to the most amazing 50 minutes with the beast as yet.

Had gone shopping and returned with bags in hand. Unlocked the car, opened the tail gate and put shopping in. Sat in the drivers seat and put the key in. The seat-belt beeper started to go and so fastened the seat belt. Then cranked the key and all the lights on the dash went off. Wow! only two days old and my first kick in the gut from TML. The car at this point was completely lifeless. I got out and pressed "lock" on the remote and it locked ok. Then pressed "unlock" and it did that ok too. Got in once again, put the key in and cranked and all the lights went off again. Tried different combinations of this routine but eventually the car would not even lock and unlock anymore.

Called the Dealer at 14:35. The tech head also asked me to repeat lock, unlock and other variations of the same theme and eventually said that the recovery guys were on the way. At about 15:15 the guys arrived. Went straight to the fuse box. No issues there. Opened the hood and guess what the battery cable had come off. In fact it looked like it was never really tightened before the vehicle was handed over to me. Yes the great PDI check failed. The guy was extremely embarrassed and said he would make sure the concerned persons were brought to book. took down the chassis number and started looking for other loose cables all over the place. That didn't help in me regaining any more trust yet. He was gone by 15:20.

So next time I shall lift the hood up to see if there is a simple solution before calling for help with anything to do with this 300 crore wonder.