Hi all, new to an Enyaq Coupe, not new to the forum or Skodas in general.....

I've just bought a 2024 vRS coupe. I went to fit my dash cam to it and found a hardwire nextbase kit already fitted - result! Unfortunately, the fuse used was a permanent 12v live (!). I've since moved it to a switched 12v. I've been having app 'no connection' and 'battery protection' statuses.

Historically, my Superb L&K from 2014 had a dash cam running from the 12v socket, which, ultimately meant the start/stop 12v battery required replacement.

I'm wondering if the fact that the dash cam in my new car was connected to a permanent 12v has caused the battery to fail prematurely.

I think it's worth changing the 12v battery to a new one to see if it sorts the app status issues. Has anyone changed the 12v battery? Anything to look out for?

Cheers

S

Edited Wednesday at 20:493 days by Stunts

Do you have 'Optimised Battery Use' enabled? This helps maintain the 12V by topping up from HV battery when required.

What setting is that?

The only thing I see is "battery care" mode which is the stop charging at 80% option.

I often find I see "Battery protection" flagged in the app, which means its stopping app access in order to protect the 12V battery ...which happens when I check status too often, even whilst charging when you would think there is plenty power floating around to charge everything.

SO some way to have it use the main battery to top up the 12V seems obvious good feature to me.

Mine does the 12v protection from time to time. I have a ctek charger, a CS Free, and in winter, chuck it on the battery about once a week. As the ctek has its own battery built in and will bring the 12v up enough to allow the car to start in a few moments, I carry it in the car just in case at all times.

However, I think that warning also comes up if you access the car remotely too often in a given period. Like about 6 times in 12 hours or something.Because I use Octopus to schedule, I sometimes get a schedule with an hour here, a gap, half an hour, a gap, another hour...

Those kind of non-contiguous schedules sometimes seem to kick in the warning and then charging stops or fails. But you just get in, move the car an inch, get out, it resets the warning and Octopus will charge it again. Not much good at 3am but still.

Every time I used the ctek the 12v is either fine or within an hour or so of being fine.

Car is also a coupe, 25 months old.

I don't think Skoda offer the Optimised Battery Use setting in the app, that's a VW thing I think. I think the Enyaq charges the 12v when driving ok, but I can't find a definitive thing saying it will charge the 12v when you plug the car in and just recharging. I can find things like "it's supposed to" or "probably in some circumstances" but not an official yes that's how it works. Maybe someone else has definite info on that. I just assume mine doesn't, hence using the ctek just in case

Edited 15 minutes ago15 min by crankcase