Bigbelly

Thanks for the information on checking the battery manufacturing date. I've checked mine and it looks to be the original battery as it has 29 15 on the negative pole to the battery, so not quite 10 years old as it appears to be made in July of 2015 but still not bad going. I have bit the bullet and ordered up an new battery as for the faults I have with the car at the moment. I have since bought an OBDeleven scanner and have done a scan and about a dozen faults were shown some were intermittent but about half were reading as low voltage to different sensors and bulbs but they are working, hopefully a new battery will clear some of them atleast fingers crossed. If anyone is thinking of buying a new battery shortly I ordered a Bosch S5A08 70AH 760A from Battery group as I looked at Tayna batteries as recommended on here but I did some looking around at prices and the Battery group site came out cheaper for the same battery by about £14 cheaper with standard delivery as they had a 10% code off at the moment, i'm not sure how long that will last as it said it was ending soon. The Battery group is a slower delivery service they quote 2 to 4 days on there standard delivery so unless you need it quicker and then Tayna would be the better option as it's next day but will cost you a little bit more. I was looking at the Varta battery as thats whats on the car but the bosch is the equivalent and I have read up they are made in the same factory and the Varta is more expensive on both sites. Thanks again for all the replys I appreciate the help.

Hi All Thanks for all of your advice I'm really grateful. I haven't had chance till tonight to test anything due to work. I have tested the battery on cranking and on the first start the multimeter went down to 7.94 volts and then once started the battery was being charged at 14.79 volts so hopefully the alternator is working fine. The second start the voltage went down to 9.6 volts and I checked the voltage between the positive terminal and the earth and it was close to the running voltage between the battery negative and positive so the earthing for the battery seems fine. The stop start hasn't worked since I have had the car which has only been about a fortnight, I have been on a few longs runs aswell and its made no difference. There's no other electrical bits connected up on the car, I have no way of checking if the battery has been coded or how old it is though. It looks like the battery is on the way out, the astra that I had before in the end was getting harder to start and eventually gave out and wouldn't start at all. Is it the same with the octavia's so if I just keep an eye on it until it gets worse as its starting fine at the moment or is it likely to cause more problems? There's a lot more electronics on this car compared to the astra and there similiar ages but I suspose the Skoda as it's Volkswagon running gear is more advanced, which also means possibly more to go wrong. Is there any preference to the OBDeleven or the VCDS programming? As I'm not sure on which to buy but would like to change the battery myself to save some money on the garage fees and also change some of the bulbs to led's which I have read up will cause error codes. Thanks again for all the replys, they have been a big help

Thanks for all the replys. I have checked again with a friends multimeter and the readings were 12.69 volts with the engine turned off and at idle with nothing inside the car turned on and it was showing 14.85 volts. I feel a bit stupid now as I didn't think that my multimeter could be faulty and to try another one, but it is only a cheap screwfix lap multimeter that I have had for a fair while and I only use it for diy testings occasionally. Has anyone any ideas to why the stop start doesn't work still as the battery has a good charge and the main display always states says there is high power consumption? This is without any air con, heater or demistors on everything high drawing is turned off, it occasionaly says that the engine needs to be running which at the time it was but that is intermittenly displaying on the main display. Thanks in advance

Hello I'm after some help as I have recently bought the car and stop start isn't working, so from my previous car was a vauxhall astra and had the same fault and it turned out the battery wasn't holding enough charge. I have checked the voltage at the battery on the Octavia and its really high at a standing of 22 volts and when the engine is idling its even higher at 26 volts surely this cant be right? The battery is a Varta AGM 68ah which I have checked is a stop start battery so the correct one is fitted. The main display also shows that there is the a high power consumption so the stop start wont engage. I'm not too worried about the stop start not working but the high battery voltages at idle and running is very concerning but this is my first Skoda so I'm not sure on how they run voltage wise but my previous Astra the battery was around 12 to 13 volts at rest and about 14 to 15 volts when running. Any help would be greatly appreciate as I dont wont to ruin the battery or alternator or this could be how they run but it doesn't seem right to me. Thanks in advance to anyone that can help put my mind at rest or can advise if it is a fault on how to retifify it.

Hello I have joined the group as I'm a new owner of a 2015 Octavia vrs with high mileage so I will probably need some help in the future with keeping it running smoothly and I have a few issues that I will post shortly that I would be really greatful for some help with. This is the first Skoda that I have bought so I dont know of any of the faults or what to watch out for. Cheers