Micky 32

When my car was new in 2024 kessy on the drivers side was patchy. But the last 1.5 years it has been working flawlessly.

Yeah it has that pulse setting but i’d say the battery would need to be disconnected to use it. It wouldn’t surprise me if there’s sulfation. According to the obd11 the battery never goes above 70-75% soc and it gets lots of driving 30k a year.

Yep. Charger says full after about 30-40 mins

According to obd11 my “batttery aging performance” is down to 70% after 2.5 years. 70ah Varta EFB+ 70ah.

Mine currently reads 4.6 -4.8 70ah size.

If your battery is a EFB+ the internal resistance 7.4 mohm seems a little high. Ideally should be around 4-4.5 ish mohm

My March 2024 built RS diesel suffers from intermittent reboots. It might not happen for a month then it might return and happen a few times before stopping again for weeks. It seems to happen about 20ish seconds after i start the car.

You should be able to find engine starts in the ecu. A lot of other factors of ah draw. Car sitting in trafffic when engine is off. Locking and opening of the car. Brake regeneration cycling the battery etc

OBDeleven. Total mileage 72,000 miles. Total engine starts 24,500 including start/stop. Battery resistance averages 4.6-5.2mohms depending on state of charge and temperature ( i have seen it reach 50 degrees C in the warm weather ). I don’t trust electronic battery testers on EFB+ batteries. My tester for at least a year fails my battery but it performs flawlessly and start stop works flawlessly.

The total energy throughput and charging throughput on my 2.5 year old vRS is nearly 14,000ah.

Over the last few weeks reboots. It’s the same kind of reboot as a forced one by holding the power button. It won’t do it for weeks and then it reappears. It’s on the latest software. If it reboots i have noticed that it does it about 20-30 seconds after starting the car. It never does it during a drive.

Yeah. It was done at 40k.

I have noticed when moving slowly or coming to a stop i can hear in the background the DSG slightly noisey. Best way i can describe it is like a bearing graunchy dry loose worn cogs kinda sounds. It’s quite low but i notice it and it’s annoying. I feel like i’m driving an old car. Is this normal? The car has done 67k miles.

Go into engine. Then live data. Scroll down until you find it. Post your results, age, mileage etc. Would be good to compare.

Going through obd11 on my car a 2 year and 2 month old diesel vRS with 64,000 miles. You can see how many times the starter has been activated. Manual starts on mine = 8860 Automatic starts ( start stop) = 13038 Total 21898! That’s an average of 27 starter activations a day! How does the poor little battery cope lol