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

Originally Posted by sniegy

You Sure ? ;-)

Yes but I do expect it to die this winter - the clues are appearing - one flat battery a little while back after having the radio and internal lights on for a while when working on the car. It came back on charging, but I have had a few low power episodes on the radio and once it was on with no volume at all for about 5 minutes after startup. No other dash indications.

We will see what happens on Canberra's -5 degree mornings in 5 months time.

Garry

My recently acquired 08MY D3 Tdv6 (Nov 07) still has the original calcium battery with only 80k km on the clock!!

I expect a decent period from my battery.

My patrol battery was 7 1/2 years old when she met her new owner, and my Touareg battery is just about to hit 5 years.

I have always given my batteries a tickle the 4th Sunday of each month with a multi stage battery charger.....since forever.

This I think is the key for me for batteries to last....the old man taught me that as car alternators have never been designed to properly charge batteries.

Brett.....

After replacing the battery in my 2008 D3 and finding out the problem was a dirty terminal the battery is doing sterling duty cranking a 5.2 litre Diesel to life in the tractor....
Regards,
Tote

Originally Posted by discojools

Why do you ask that Graeme?

I was thinking about the battery load sensor being shorted/bypassed at least to a degree due to the earth connections of the aerial shielding at the body and the UHF set but in reality any significant current draw (eg starter motor) would melt the UHF earth wire or the aerial shielding anyway, so it wouldn't last long.

Thanks all for your replies!

The battery light is no longer on, and the car seems to start without any problems. I will monitor it and hope that it comes back within the next 2 weeks rather than in 4 weeks time...

Edit: Actually, since I need to go into a dealer to get warranty work (oil weep from turbo, 2nd time) done before the 3 years is up, I might as well tell them about the battery problem.

Originally Posted by eddomak

Thanks all for your replies!

The battery light is no longer on, and the car seems to start without any problems. I will monitor it and hope that it comes back within the next 2 weeks rather than in 4 weeks time...

have you had, or you going to get, an end of warranty inspection done before the warranty runs out? It'd be a bugger to have something fail the day after....

I place ours on the cetek charger for a few days every month or so. as im sick of the low battery warning message. Hopefully the battery lasts long time given the cost of replacing it.
Cheers
Steve