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In the past I had to charge the 70 Amp Hour (large battery) for my car using my motorcycle. I ran a couple of #14 AWG (small wires) from my motorbike to the car. After letting the motorcycle run for a hour the battery was charged enough to start.
PS I disconnected the bike from the car before I cranked the car over.
The Goodyear service place near the Ceres Terminal is a good place to go they have the proper equipment to test your alternator/battery.

 

Unitop and Top & Bottoms sell jumper cables. If the battery is 2 months old, surely it should still charge. If it doesn't most batteries have a guarantee. I would get the alternator checked first to make sure the battery is being charged.

 

I went through a similar situation before I left Dumaguete to come back to the US. My battery would not hold a charge. I kept charging it, it would start once, but would die again as soon as it was turned off. I checked the belt and it was good, replaced the battery, same issue. Turned out, it was an alternator issue (2 year old car), should have been covered under warranty (that is a story for another day). They were going to charge me 42,000 for a new one, which I did not understand why a 2 year old alternator was bad....anyway, long story short, the auto shop down the street from Citi Hardware opened up the alternator for me and found the voltage regulator inside the alternator was bad and they replaced that one part for 7000php.

 

I had battery problems , tried to charge them up but wouldn't charge. took them to dumaguete to be charged 100 peso each, problem was alternator belt was loose. And the battery's wouldn't charge at home because they were too flat, charger has a built in system that wont charge dead battery's fail safe to protect the charger, if that make sense.