Bloody Battery... AGAIN....

Hi All,

Can I please ask that if you are having concerns with a flat battery, that even if you have LR Assist attend, that you still following this arrange a booking with your local dealership.

Along with this, if you wish to provide me with the following details:

Full Name:
Contact No:
Email Address:
Vehicle Reg:
Dealership:
Date of Booking:

I would be more than happy to liaise with the dealership to ensure that the correct checks are made not only on the battery, but also ensure that the software is up to date and that there isn't unnecessary drain occurring on the vehicle that may not have been addressed and may be leading to the concern.

Many thanks,
Pete

Nice Offer Pete!

We've chatted about this before. My US dealer considers the battery on this car to be marginal. Mine was replaced first week of ownership (car bought new). My guess is that we don't see a lot of it over here for two reasons: we're all petrol and your diesels have a much higher compression ratio so beat-up the battery even more. The other reason is (and only guessing from my experience) dealers here just go ahead and change batteries if they are questionable. There's no question, judging from what I read on this and other forums, that you get a major runaround from your dealers in the UK when it comes to replacing batteries. Just an observation.

Is anyone with the MY 2014 Evoque having battery failures or 'low battery' 'gearbox failure' warnings?

We are looking at changing and if the Evoque is still having these issues and rattling then we will be spending our £50k with someone other than LR.

Nothing like that with my MY14 [SMILING FACE WITH SMILING EYES]

(01-03-2014 07:44pm)Stadt Panzer Wrote:  Nothing like that with my MY14 [SMILING FACE WITH SMILING EYES]

SP, good to hear, we are making our monthly trip to Inverness this week and will be calling at the dealer to get a price to change.

P.S. Inverness is our nearest dealer at 125 miles! so not much choice for us.

My nearest dealer is 40 miles away? More then a royal pain, suppose my choice for wanting to live in the country.

(28-02-2014 01:23pm)jbob Wrote:  Mine is doing the same

Flat on my drive yesterday.

Battery was down to 5v but LR assist guy said battery was good and alternator was charging fine.

Hmmm

Find it strange the battery type is regular flooded,the same print out report on my flat battery from LR assist stated it as AGM flat plate which I thought all evoques had?
I may be wrong on that fact but unsure if this would have any bearing on their test,surely the machine would have to know which type of battery it was being used on so it can test correctly?

I could be wrong, but thought the AGM type were only fitted after the battery problems.

(01-03-2014 10:54pm)Evo-king Wrote:  I could be wrong, but thought the AGM type were only fitted after the battery problems.

My battery was replaced last October plus a supposed software update. I know the new battery has a LR logo and part number, tomorrow I will check and post the battery part number if anyone can identify it.