Lunched Battery

CatmanV2

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Slightly odd perhaps. Not had the GT out for a week or so cos I've been using the station run-around. Walked past it last night and noticed the leds in the doors were not flashing.
It's been showing some odd lights on the comfort connector and the c-tek so grabbed a manual. Red (!) lit up. Appears the battery is bollixed. Bosch S5. 3 years old. I guess given some of the temperature extremes it's not too much to worry about.

Trying to get some volts in so I can swap it out with the one I originally had fitted, assuming that holds a charge (it did 6 months ago)

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CatmanV2 said:
Slightly odd perhaps. Not had the GT out for a week or so cos I've been using the station run-around. Walked past it last night and noticed the leds in the doors were not flashing.
It's been showing some odd lights on the comfort connector and the c-tek so grabbed a manual. Red (!) lit up. Appears the battery is bollixed. Bosch S5. 3 years old. I guess given some of the temperature extremes it's not too much to worry about.

Trying to get some volts in so I can swap it out with the one I originally had fitted, assuming that holds a charge (it did 6 months ago)

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sorry to hear that - at 3 years, should still be under warranty, no? I thought Bosch warranty was min. 4 years (think mine is 5). mind, never tried to claim on one so no idea how easy/difficult they'd make it.

As I've mentioned on a few other threads I can't recommend the S5 AGM highly enough

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CatmanV2

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Hmm. Actually looks like it may have been on one of those occasions that only a total idiot would action (i.e. driving away with the C-Tek connected) may have damaged the plug on the extension lead.

We'll see tomorrow!

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Ryandoc

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Replaced my battery just last weekend with a Bosch S5, got it from euro car parts for £150 with discount code

Prior to that original battery was at 11.4V, stick the CTek on it and it dropped to 8V, thing was goosed
 
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