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Faulty Battery? - M13 - 08-04-2016 04:05pm
Does anyone else's evoque threaten him that the car will shut down in 1-3 minutes if the engine is not on?
Mine is a May 2015 Evoque and has been doing giving me the message for the past 4 months.
If so, did you take any action?
Took it to a mechanic to read it's battery 'health' and this is what came out -
![[Image: IvTq2Ba.jpg]](http://i.imgur.com/IvTq2Ba.jpg)
As can be seen clearly, its on weak.
RE: Faulty Battery? - PhilSkill - 08-04-2016 05:37pm
10V is not a happy system... Should be under Warranty.
RE: Faulty Battery? - XFullFatTim - 09-04-2016 07:51am
Do you do a lot of very short journeys? If so then LR will come back and tell you that that is the cause of the problem. I know somebody who only drove 4 miles to work and back every day and his battery in his 2014 Range Rover kept loosing charge and getting a flat battery. Land Rover told him that the car wasn't meant for such short distances and refused to look further into the matter............. Needless to say he sold his 6 month old FFRR LWB Autobiography (£128,000 worth) and is now driving a 4 year old 2nd hand Audi A8 that has never had an issue with charging on the same short journeys, and after owning Range Rovers for more than 30 years (and buying a new one every 18 months!) will never own another. Land Rover can be so shortsighted and negative about customers problems they don't realize just how much damage that it is doing to itself.
RE: Faulty Battery? - jeffersj - 09-04-2016 10:38am
We have discussed this in earlier threads specifically about the ECO button. If this stop/start function is left on and only short journeys are undertaken with lots of stops then there is a heavy drain on the battery, switch the ECO button to off.
I was once told that the drain on the battery at each start can take a good 20 mins of driving to re-instate the battery (not a technical statement) so you can imagine the effect of several stop starts.
RE: Faulty Battery? - Jeroma - 09-04-2016 08:11pm
Faulty Battery? - Stadt Panzer - 09-04-2016 10:28pm
52 Ah battery? Mine has a 80 Ah battery.
RE: Faulty Battery? - M13 - 24-04-2016 04:20pm
(09-04-2016 07:51am)XFullFatTim Wrote: Do you do a lot of very short journeys? If so then LR will come back and tell you that that is the cause of the problem. I know somebody who only drove 4 miles to work and back every day and his battery in his 2014 Range Rover kept loosing charge and getting a flat battery. Land Rover told him that the car wasn't meant for such short distances and refused to look further into the matter............. Needless to say he sold his 6 month old FFRR LWB Autobiography (£128,000 worth) and is now driving a 4 year old 2nd hand Audi A8 that has never had an issue with charging on the same short journeys, and after owning Range Rovers for more than 30 years (and buying a new one every 18 months!) will never own another. Land Rover can be so shortsighted and negative about customers problems they don't realize just how much damage that it is doing to itself.
excuse the very late reply.
Yeah, my journeys are very short because I live in an island which is about 14km in length...Might be in a bit of a pickle...
(09-04-2016 10:28pm)Stadt Panzer Wrote: 52 Ah battery? Mine has a 80 Ah battery.
Mine's 80Ah also
RE: Faulty Battery? - Rein - 01-05-2016 03:49pm
(24-04-2016 04:20pm)M13 Wrote: excuse the very late reply.
Yeah, my journeys are very short because I live in an island which is about 14km in length...Might be in a bit of a pickle...
Mine's 80Ah also
Mine also 80Ah, located in The Netherlands, so no very cold weather circumstances here, but still 80Ah. I do regularly have a transmission fault popping up briefly on the dash when the car has sat for 2 days or so at first start. Dealer says it is the dip in the power when starting, to which the ECU responds with an "error"
Sometimes it gets so bad that I get a call from my cars security system helpdesk reporting low battery. I then have to tell them I just started my car
Maybe I should get my battery checked for health aswell...