Thread: How long is the life of your D4 battery?

See if you can get a warranty claim!!!!
Gett Land Rover assist to come and start it at the airport if its flat.
Worth asking the question.
Andrew

Originally Posted by Mungus

Just had my 2 year old original battery replaced under warranty last week during the 24 month service. Four times with a flat battery in the last three weeks. Charged three times with a CTek, but unfortunately longest period was 36 hours, so none long enough for float charge to take effect. 9.8V dead battery the night before service. Charge overnight to get it into dealer and replaced with new under warranty as a premature fault. Now I have the CTek and because most of my drives this year are short 15-20 minutes, I will be charging (including float) every month or two to keep it in good SoC.
Took it for a drive the week before it's first flat charge episode, solely to try and get a bit of charge into it, but forgot that under load it does not charge and I spent most of the time overtaking road trains so probably just made it worse.
Traxide USI 160 and Yellow top is up next, but after I let the trouble and strife get over the recent cost of GOE rims and imminent cost of ARB bar.

Mine gets short runs as well,at times,as we have company vehicles.It may also sit around for a week or two at a time.I have the old model SC80,and D4 traxide kit.
I found the current used by the traxide relay, added to the limited use of the vehicle, caused the batteries to be continually in a low state of charge.I now turn off the relay at times to stop this happening.The newer relays use less current,but it is something to keep an eye on.
For a D4 that is used a lot,there is no need to worry about this issue.Dont get me wrong,the benefits of the Traxide system far outweigh any negatives.


I have always charged the D4 batteries regularly with a Cteck charger.

Batteries in these vehicles don't seem to last long

As a comparison,i replaced the battery in our spare work van.This van sits around a lot,actually has done less than 10000k's in the last 2 yrs.I have never charged the battery with the Cteck,until recently.The old battery was date stamped 6/6/2010.

Originally Posted by cjc_td5

Hi Andy.
The battery in my D4 is showing signs of failure at 2 years old (occasional low battery warning) and I was wondering about the CAT battery option. I'll have to get my head around the different battery types then see if they can supply a suitable battery size.

My D4 is sitting at Perth airport at the moment and I am setting myself for a "fail to proceed" when I arrive back after 3 weeks OS on Sunday. I am even carrying Gordon's book in my luggage so I can do a "no power" entry and have a known good battery and jumper leads in the car :-/ .

Ciao
Chris

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Originally Posted by LandyAndy

See if you can get a warranty claim!!!!
Gett Land Rover assist to come and start it at the airport if its flat.
Worth asking the question.
Andrew

The "Land Rover Assist" mob in Perth (one of the insurance companies, can't remember who it is) normally carry a new battery for the D4 in the back of their ute. I called them out once when I was working down in Perth, and the technician replaced my battery in the car park under the apartment block in Adelaide Tce. He checked on the age and warranty status of the old battery, and discovered that it was still under warranty (battery warranty is separate to the vehicle warranty). The replacement never cost me a cent.

Originally Posted by Bytemrk

Mine is sitting in the driveway on the ctek right now, having failed to proceed

Seems the car likes this weather less than I do!

It hasn't been holding charge well for a few weeks so after 4 years on the original battery, looks like I'm buying one too.

Mines beginning to slow a little now. 4 yrs and 8 months of short runs with long runs every few weeks has kept it going (USI kit helping for sure)...

About to order a replacement before it all stops!

Geez Mungus. 15-20 min...
My work runs when in town were 4 min door to door...

So I'm looking at an Odyssey PC1350 at the moment as an option.

Had them before with success in other vehicles. Has anyone given them a go in a D3/4?

I found Varta G14 locally that I'm going with.

Originally Posted by Bytemrk

I found Varta G14 locally that I'm going with.

Mine has a Varta G14, it is quite old now, Graeme could probably tell you how old it is as I think it was put in during warranty period.