What have you done to your MK 7 today ?

[SPIKE_CS]

Need some help! For the last few months my car has not started on several occasions due to a low battery. It was in for a service last month and I asked for a check to be done on the battery and was told it was OK although they said if it continued to happen it would be a new battery that I needed. Has anyone else experienced this with a 5 year old car? I would have expected another year or two yet! Got a price from my VW dealer…£245! Seems I will just have to get a battery but thought I’d ask here for reassurance.

[Guzzle]

Need some help! For the last few months my car has not started on several occasions due to a low battery. It was in for a service last month and I asked for a check to be done on the battery and was told it was OK although they said if it continued to happen it would be a new battery that I needed. Has anyone else experienced this with a 5 year old car? I would have expected another year or two yet! Got a price from my VW dealer…£245! Seems I will just have to get a battery but thought I’d ask here for reassurance.

Does your stop/start still work as normal? If not, that's a sure sign the battery is on its way out. If it's the original battery then you've done well to get this long out of it. Mine went after 3.5 years.

[karlos]

Need some help! For the last few months my car has not started on several occasions due to a low battery. It was in for a service last month and I asked for a check to be done on the battery and was told it was OK although they said if it continued to happen it would be a new battery that I needed. Has anyone else experienced this with a 5 year old car? I would have expected another year or two yet! Got a price from my VW dealer…£245! Seems I will just have to get a battery but thought I’d ask here for reassurance.

I'm well over seven years on the original battery but it's not unusual to have to replace them after 5 years, it's luck of the draw.

If you do have to replace it you can get a decent AGM battery for at least a hundred quid cheaper than the dealer. Only thing is it will need to be coded which only a garage can do if you haven't got an OBD tool.

[SPIKE_CS]

Need some help! For the last few months my car has not started on several occasions due to a low battery. It was in for a service last month and I asked for a check to be done on the battery and was told it was OK although they said if it continued to happen it would be a new battery that I needed. Has anyone else experienced this with a 5 year old car? I would have expected another year or two yet! Got a price from my VW dealer…£245! Seems I will just have to get a battery but thought I’d ask here for reassurance.

Does your stop/start still work as normal? If not, that's a sure sign the battery is on its way out. If it's the original battery then you've done well to get this long out of it. Mine went after 3.5 years.

I haven't really noticed if it works as normal or not, but I do know it has stop/started on the odd occasion - maybe not as much as it should normally do.

[SPIKE_CS]

Need some help! For the last few months my car has not started on several occasions due to a low battery. It was in for a service last month and I asked for a check to be done on the battery and was told it was OK although they said if it continued to happen it would be a new battery that I needed. Has anyone else experienced this with a 5 year old car? I would have expected another year or two yet! Got a price from my VW dealer…£245! Seems I will just have to get a battery but thought I’d ask here for reassurance.

I'm well over seven years on the original battery but it's not unusual to have to replace them after 5 years, it's luck of the draw.

If you do have to replace it you can get a decent AGM battery for at least a hundred quid cheaper than the dealer. Only thing is it will need to be coded which only a garage can do if you haven't got an OBD tool.

Yea, seems I got the short straw this time! I assume a VW battery is straight forward plug and play - no coding required? I will just fit it myself.

[Adam T7]

Another reason to make turning off stop / start part of the engine start process.

[rowlers]

Need some help! For the last few months my car has not started on several occasions due to a low battery. It was in for a service last month and I asked for a check to be done on the battery and was told it was OK although they said if it continued to happen it would be a new battery that I needed. Has anyone else experienced this with a 5 year old car? I would have expected another year or two yet! Got a price from my VW dealer…£245! Seems I will just have to get a battery but thought I’d ask here for reassurance.

I'm well over seven years on the original battery but it's not unusual to have to replace them after 5 years, it's luck of the draw.

If you do have to replace it you can get a decent AGM battery for at least a hundred quid cheaper than the dealer. Only thing is it will need to be coded which only a garage can do if you haven't got an OBD tool.

Yea, seems I got the short straw this time! I assume a VW battery is straight forward plug and play - no coding required? I will just fit it myself.

It needs coding...

[joe6]

It needs coding because the ecu remembers the characteristics of the old battery and the alternator charges accordingly so needs to be reset.

[SPIKE_CS]

Any recommendations for the best app to use with OBDII to allow programming?

[MinchCS]

Any recommendations for the best app to use with OBDII to allow programming?

Takes 2 mins to recode with this. https://obdeleven.com