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Offline Pixwix

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Re: What replacement battery did you fit ?
« Reply #10 on: 07 August 2019, 13:50 »
Last few weeks my battery has started telling me it needs charging and yesterday when I went to the car it wouldn’t start at all. Turned all electrics off and it started fourth time of asking. Drove it home, seven miles. Went out later , another 7 miles or so and then back to work this morning ... SOC said 0% when I then checked it...does this mean battery is knackered. Three years old.. 3 weeks out of warranty. Would the battery have been covered by the warranty? Only asking as it had MOT and service 2 days before warranty expired.

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Re: What replacement battery did you fit ?
« Reply #11 on: 07 August 2019, 14:05 »
Juicetin - apart from the 0% tSOC indication, exactly the same symptoms as mine.

Pixwix - sounds like yours might fail soon and there's a chance they might cover it. It's on the standard 3 year warranty and if you ask, they might either cover it, or maybe partially cover it. You'd have to ask.
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Offline Pixwix

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Re: What replacement battery did you fit ?
« Reply #12 on: 07 August 2019, 14:14 »
Thanks Gnasher, I’ll give them a call. Cross fingers

Offline Pixwix

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Re: What replacement battery did you fit ?
« Reply #13 on: 07 August 2019, 14:31 »
So I’ve just called service department... £60 diagnostic as out of warranty, they want the car 2 days and they can’t confirm whether they’ll be able to help me towards cost of battery is determined to be at fault.
And of course their cost of a battery is more than buying one elsewhere. Dunno whether to just get a new battery from somewhere else .

Offline jaceyboy

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Re: What replacement battery did you fit ?
« Reply #14 on: 07 August 2019, 15:01 »
What coding needs to be done when replacing the battery?

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Offline Juicetin

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Re: What replacement battery did you fit ?
« Reply #15 on: 07 August 2019, 15:05 »
The battery has to be "recognised" by the car using the serial number, so all the electrics are optimised. When the fitter codes it it comes up with a list of battery manufacturers and type fitted.
Pixwix, i've had my fair share of protracted dealer hassles, i would be tempted to splash out on a new one and be done with it.

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Re: What replacement battery did you fit ?
« Reply #16 on: 07 August 2019, 15:10 »
3 weeks out of warranty and no firm offer of goodwill. VW are just showing themselves up to be a  complete bunch of sheisters lately. Goodwill is dead. Have all the marques gone the same way, or just VAG?

It all seems a bit abrupt to go 3 weeks after warranty and the dealership servicing not noticing it was on it's way out.


They used to provide an end of warranty inspection to catch things that didn't look to healthy and get them replaced before the warranty runs out.

Probably don't bother now because the hoops that VW make them jump through to get a claim verified/approved  and the labour rate paid for warranty work by VW doesn't make it worth their while to chase.

Do you know of any indy places that might test your battery's recharging capability before they'll sell you a new one, to rule out the alternator or some other system in the car?

If you bite the bullet and buy a battery, have you tried Costco?
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Re: What replacement battery did you fit ?
« Reply #17 on: 07 August 2019, 15:35 »
I’m thinking it might be easier just to get a new car :wink:

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Re: What replacement battery did you fit ?
« Reply #18 on: 07 August 2019, 17:35 »
I’m thinking it might be easier just to get a new car :wink:

Another VW? Right there - that's why VW stopped doing extended factory warranties and why goodwill has evaporated. They want you to keep buying new VWs and not keeping them beyond 3 years, because you dare not have one out of warranty.
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Re: What replacement battery did you fit ?
« Reply #19 on: 07 August 2019, 17:43 »
I’m thinking it might be easier just to get a new car :wink:

Another VW? Right there - that's why VW stopped doing extended factory warranties and why goodwill has evaporated. They want you to keep buying new VWs and not keeping them beyond 3 years, because you dare not have one out of warranty.

Oh no.. I’d better go read the thread where someone was extolling the virtues of their 6 year old car just to try and cheer myself up... first time for a few years I’ve had a car out of warranty :cry: . Was going to hang onto it as struggling to get same spec on a facelift for price I want to pay. Plus didn’t want to get back into the ‘is it going to get nicked’ headspace that a new(er) car might send me to.
Btw car started perfectly tonight , SOC display is now ——%