Dodgy Battery? ..Faulty Starter?... Something else??

(01-11-2016 12:14pm)Stadt Panzer Wrote:  As already pointed out the whole system is monitored by them ECU, if you have a flat battery once and you recharge or replace it then you need to head down to your local dealer and get them to reset them system. The reason is that although you recharge the battery the system remembers so that needs to be cleared. If you do not do this then the car will always think that the battery is half or less full.

that makes sense stadt

Update:

It was a faulty battery!

Despite having 3 different garages (including the garage that repaired it today) test the battery with 3 separate machines none of them picked up on this simple failure using the new digital battery diagnostic computer.

The garage guy told me he was 100% certain the battery was to blame as he'd done an 'old style' drop test and it went from 700amps down to less than 100amps.

He said the newer test machines sometimes miss this type of failure.

Anyway.... so far so good, The car is fine but until i've started and restarted the car another couple of hundred times I'm not 100% confident but ill update here one way or another!

Guys, thanks for all the help and advice!

x

Hope it's sorted!

After replacing the battery and the fault still comes up, it might be due to a faulty Aux battery in our evoques already.