For the future, as Tim says, get a Battery Maintainer. I have an Ablemail AMT12 fitted and use the Manual Option that forces the Leisure Battery to transfer current to the Vehicle Battery for 9 seconds in every 10 to ensure that the latter survives a Scottish Winter unscathed! I also went mad and had an Ablemail ABB07 fitted so that the state of charge for both batteries is shown on my phone when I'm within Bluetooth range. Two of the best pieces of kit I've bought for removing the angst of whether the batteries are still in the land of the living!
If you let the battery go flat, why would a supplier replace the battery? It was not faulty, it was mistreated (doesn't matter if unknowingly or not).
Blimey
consider me told off !!
It is easily done and while I may not have appeared sympathatic, I am really.Blimey
(I replied from the point of view of a product supplier, which I am also, and being asked to cover costs of products in this kind of situation is just not viable).This is why I am sometimes like a bit of a broken record when it comes to suggesting the fitment of starter battery maintainers. Yes, you can plug in a cable when you remember to (the Clive Mott solution Witzend goes on and on about), or take the battery inside and put it on a charger (a lot of work, but Trevskoda loves the extra work). Or you can just fit a Battery Maintainer and have done and not think about it any more.We had a lot going on this winter including a long stay in hospital and I think my husband had other things on his mind and completely got side tracked rather than thinking about van and battery issues ..
I’ll make sure to give him a stern telling off
It would only be worth having them test it if you can take it there personally I would suggest? You have the courier cost there to pay only to be likely told knackered,and then you have no battery. At least if you kept hold you could get a few quid from a scrap metal merchant?Alpha batteries will ask you to return the battery so that they can test it to determine if it is faulty. They wont replace it on the basis it’s just gone flat. Ask me how I know this .
Worth a shot. My Leisure Batteries had had it when I got my new (to me) Motorhome. one could not be resurrected, but the other is kind of ok now. I wouldn't want to rely on it though as a starter! too risky, especially on a Ducato type motorhom with that sensitive Airbag ECU
Tried it Rob ..
Probably best not tell either when you find outno idea what they have planned I dare not ask
My RAV4.2 battery used to go flat after two weeks of non-use. Car still under initial warranty but Toyota not interested. Best solution far as they were concerned ... lock with the key instead of remote so alarm is not on!
Indeed I do David. Fair to say best bit of kit I have bought for the van, well, a close second to the corkscrew. My tracker, amongst other things, tells me the vehicle battery voltage and prior to fitting the AMT12-2 when it showed 12.4 I would take the van for a run of roughly 90 miles (Brighton and back) which served two purposes, exercise the van and charge the battery. Since fitting the AMT12-2 the vehicle battery has never dropped below 12.4v and is normally 12.5v occasionally rising to 12.6v. I do have about 340W of solar and a 460ah leisure battery with a victron 100/30 MPPT controller, I have no idea what any of that means other than I no longer concern myself about the vehicle battery.
