New battery needed at 43 months

[silver1011]

I was thinking Skoda will soon see the error of their ways and stop scrimping on battery's.

 

Then I notice that most fail outside of the UK's 3 year warranty.

 

I'm not a betting man but I'd have a wager on the conversation back at Skoda HQ, I'm sure it involved a very short discussion ending in naa!

[peterposh]

"With a Start-Stop vehicle fitted with an "AGM battery, the technician cannot just replace the battery in the way that they have done with a traditional battery.

Instead, as the battery is intricately linked to the vehicle's on-board electronics via a battery management system (BMS) or intelligent battery sensor (IBS), it has to be integrated into the system and paired with the BMS/IBS, which requires specialist equipment. Without the equipment to assist the technician and introduce the battery into the system, the vehicle could illuminate error messages on the dash, fail to charge the battery or simply not start at all

http://pmmonline.co.uk/technical/stop-start-battery-technology-questions-answers

Edited 21 January, 2015 by peterposh

[silver1011]

Hmmm, another good reason to avoid buying a car with stop/start for as long as possible.

[peterposh]

It's a bit of a gimmick i know. However i had a tracker fitted the other week and when i looked at the stats online in about 1k miles it stated "idling" for 181 minutes, so that would have been 3 hours of ticking over

Edited 22 January, 2015 by peterposh

[silver1011]

Is "idling" when the engine was off (stop/start active) or when the car was actually idling (the parameters for stop/start were not met)?

[Richf]

Well I decided to bite the bullet and buy a new battery , bit annoying since the Varta had a 5 year warranty but I could find no paperwork on it and suspect it went to an email address I no longer have access to

 

Never mind the car is to be replaced on March 1st so I will refit the charged battery then and sell or keep the new one

[peterposh]

I had been switching off SS every time . its able to sense "ignition on" , "idling" , then "speed in transit".It can tell when the engine is running or not I'm not sure what it's connected to behind dash but the report it can generate makes sobering reading. Big brother!

Edited 23 January, 2015 by peterposh