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11th June 2021, 16:43 | #11 | |
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yes car does short journeys at the moment, silly short. Hopefully in a few weeks they will be longer. Wife has ordered battery From Ford and haggling has got it with £30 off and they will fit and reprogram. Apart from a multi meter I have no other test equipment but perhaps I may get the old battery tested. Internet suggests stop start batteries last about 4 years so it is due a change. I dont feel comfortable her having battery changed until I understand it more but at the moment our lives do not afford us a lot of time to investigate. I will be "cheesed off" if a new battery does not cure the problem. I have a feeling there would be no payment for the batter if it did not cure the problem They made a mistake with pricing, should have been £80 to diagnose but quoted £30 so charged £30. Come to the forum and could get a lot more done for a lot less. Those of you that know what you are doing could make a fortune running diagnostic testing macafee2 |
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Dealerships can appear to be rip off in their prices (and are when they don’t deliver the value for money in heightened levels of service-I’ve had atrocious experiences at dealerships which I’m only too happy to call out), but this training, equipment, posh building, the new courtesy cars and coffee have to be paid for somehow. It’s when they don’t live up to the premium pricing is when people have a right to feel aggrieved. Whilst your car is doing those short journeys definitely get it on a battery conditioner-it’s not a diesel, is it…? As if so these short trips will definitely have a negative impact on the DPF. |
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Petrol ???? Did not think Petrol engines had a DPF (Diesel Particulate Filter)
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Depending on how new macafee’s car is, I doubt it’ll have a GPF-they’re a fairly recent (two to three years from memory? I could be wrong here) addition to petrol vehicles and thus one I don’t know too much about, as they came about after I left the motor industry.
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There is a procedure for resetting the battery monitoring system. It’s a sequence of ignition on and pressing the fog light switch and hazard light switch a number of times. If you google it you will find plenty of information on it.
This resets the battery monitoring system and may get the stop start working again. If that doesn’t work, it could be time for a new battery and maybe using the car more often to keep on top of the battery health. I have a 2017 Focus and occasionally my stop start won’t work if the car has sat for a couple of days and I’m running air con etc. It’s perfectly normal for the stop start not to operate unless the car has all criteria met, such as battery state, ambient temp, engine temp, electrical load such as heating, air con, etc, etc... It’s an intelligent system and if it decides it’s best not to shut the engine down - then it won’t. Last edited by Mean & Green; 12th June 2021 at 21:23.. |
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A battery may well start the car well enough under more regular circumstances, such as at the very start of a journey until manually switching the car off. However if the battery isn’t healthy enough to carry out repeated start ups particularly on a short run - then the car will decide not to activate stop start. This is to protect the battery and help keep things running as they should. This contradicts your theory that it’s a ploy to make money as if they were just looking to do that, they’d design the car to just continually keep doing restarts until the battery can’t take the load anymore and fail. In most cases the problem is people using cars for ridiculously short journeys which doesn’t charge the battery properly. Journeys where their own two legs or two legs plus two wheels could easily take them, which would further help with CO2, but that’s another subject. Cars and car batteries like to be used for decent runs, that’s the only problem here. |
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