Breezy_Pete

No problem.

The part number is readily available in your second photo 1J0 122 291F

You guys can greenwash til you're blue in the face but there's a finite proportion of electricity that's renewable and a far higher proportion of the population claiming they use it and only it. And now I'm out.

Simple fact is, half or more of UK leccy is made by burning fossil fuels, For everyone like you or lol who claims that you're only using from the 'nice' half, someone must be using 100% 'naughty'. Imagine everyone in the UK simultaneously flipping a coin and calling 'heads'. Will they all be right?

I'm unable to help either of you with your delusions, but wish you both well.

Because EVs only ever use renewably sourced electricity??

Try to narrow down the source of the noise by getting an assistant to turn the ignition on/off while you stick your head to listen adjacent to various corners of the cabin left/right/front/back.

Thoughts are with you mate.

I think this is the company you used @VWD Buy car parts cheap | spare parts online | Energized Customs I've used them for something (else) and had good service too.

@BigEjit tells us that the design life is ten years on AGMs not sure if same applies to EFBs. That precludes any 'usage accidents' such as letting the battery into a deep discharge state for whatever reason. Would it be fair to say yours has avoided such accidents thus far @ords? What's your usage pattern like (annual mileage, journey types) if you don't mind me asking out of sheer curiosity?

All together now... "You may sayyy I'm a dreamer, But I'm no the only one"... 😁

Not really; using start/stop seems very likely to shorten a battery's life compared to not doing so.

Fuel pump is in the tank, beneath the rear seats, so unlikely. Remove the rear seat bases and see if the noise gets louder? Aircon doesn't normally work unless cabin fan is on? Is yours the version with an LCD screen, or not?

No, don't worry.

Thing is, if you just replace a battery at the first sign of any electrical trouble, you have to pay for the battery, and possibly coding the control systems to it. Then you might find a few weeks later that there is a charging system fault, a parasitic current drain, or another fault such as the one you mentioned Dave, none of which will have been improved at all by the battery swap. So you'll end up spending more than necessary, and potentially even immediately degrading the new battery, depending on the nature of the problem.

You might be surprised if you monitor the alternator output voltage; recent cars with start/stop have a different charging strategy which includes deliberately keeping the battery a little below fully charged. You may see lower voltage than you expect much of the time. It's better for fuel economy than it is for battery lifetime. If you have a charger, use it to help your diagnosis, rather than jumping to possibly premature conclusions.

Good idea that I don't think has any chance of happening officially. Anyone can do it by choice though, obviously.

Charge it more and see if the faults stop showing. I guess you meant to type 12,1 and 12,36 V.

Good spot Lee. Not the same as what I was showing, but definitely appear to be relevant.

I've not seen any posts on here about them corroding. None that I recall. Just tried a search within mk2 fab forum for the phrase "rusty brake pipe" with no search results.

Unless some bugger quotes them... I think you may have misunderstood who I was talking to nta16.

Does this help? LLLParts

Stick him on your ignore list, it'll be better for both of you.

Well there are some glaringly obvious difference between top and bottom views of that (one, right side) ebay lock, arrowed in pink on one image, but it's the lock ring 'catching bit' details that are the problem I think. If it were symmetrical, both views would have their yellow highlighted 'arrow' features pointing towards the front of the vehicle (green arrows on each view) but they don't here, forwards in left image, rearwards in right. So I reckon that's why the locking ring is failing to release, because these features are facing the wrong way on both sides of the car, with locks swapped across.

It's this bit that interacts with the locking ring within the door, if I remember right: