Thread: Low Battery Warning Message

Originally Posted by drivesafe

Hi Trevor, and I suspect that, as BMKal posted, you too are doing lots of short drives. The all to common Shopping Trolley Syndrome.

If this is the case, then you will need to use your battery charger on a pretty regular basis. Probably every night for a week, and the once a week till you get both your batteries back to a good condition.

Once back into a good condition, even if you continue to do lots of short drives, by keeping your batteries in a good charged state in the first place, the short drives will not be anywhere near as big a problem and you should not get the messages.

BTW, the messages only come into effect when you cranking battery's general state of charge is below 12.2v.

While this is not a good level to leave batteries in, but you can still start your motor with a battery as low as 11.6v

So just how long a drive might avoid “shopping trolley” sydrome as a matter of interest. I frequently do short drives but don’t get the low battery message very often at all. Surprisingly it’s the original battery 4 1/2 years old touch wood
cheers
Steve