Yes, I think you're right. Its been 6 weeks now since the car did any meaningful mileage, on Friday I am doing a 4 hour drive in the D3 and even that may not be enough, and the following weekend I am driving from Stevenage to Boston, Lincs and from Lincolnshire back to Dorset.
I'll stick VCDS on it when I get to work, assuming it starts as its been sat all night with the battery low, I did check yesterday and according to the BCM the charging current was around 10A and alternator output was 15V.
I have always had a battery drain problem anyway, where from fully charged it would go down to 15% if left for a week without being touched possibly due to faulty keyless door handles which show an intermittent fault.
I'll try and get a charger today, but being in a rural town options are limited, the local Homebase has one but thats about all I can get locally today. I really want to get the battery into a good state ASAP so what about this one.
http://www.homebase.co.uk/en/homebas...charger-141975
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Manny
2004 A4 1.8T Sport Cabriolet, 89K Miles
Past
2004 D3 A8 3.7 Quattro, Xenon, Bose, Blinds, Solar Sunroof, TV, ACC, phone and almost every option. 168K miles rising slowly
with retrofit AMI and DVB-T in place of Analogue
2003 Volvo S60 D5 SE Manual, 197K miles.
2001 D2 A8 3.7 QS, Bi-Xenon, Bose, Blinds, Electric Everything, retrofitted RNS-D, 191K Miles
Last edited by mannyo; 5th October 2015 at 05:56 AM.
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