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Good afternoon lads and ladies.
I guess this subject has been gone over before but I'm in need of some help.
Had a few issues with things like internal power sockets etc, after a bit of reading on google I discover that these cars are very sensitive to their batteries.
Checked mine, although fairly new, always running at around 15volts and never gets above 65% charged according to the engineer mode.
Its was a basic 70 amp Yuasa, I understand they need a "Silver" battery so I purchased a Bosch S5008 ( Sealed Calcium ) which I had read was a good choice for these cars.
But, is now charging even higher (15+ volts) and struggles to get above 61% charged.
So I'm at a bit of a loss.
Any advise would be greatly appreciated.
Regards
Mick
I guess this subject has been gone over before but I'm in need of some help.
Had a few issues with things like internal power sockets etc, after a bit of reading on google I discover that these cars are very sensitive to their batteries.
Checked mine, although fairly new, always running at around 15volts and never gets above 65% charged according to the engineer mode.
Its was a basic 70 amp Yuasa, I understand they need a "Silver" battery so I purchased a Bosch S5008 ( Sealed Calcium ) which I had read was a good choice for these cars.
But, is now charging even higher (15+ volts) and struggles to get above 61% charged.
So I'm at a bit of a loss.
Any advise would be greatly appreciated.
Regards
Mick
are you able to put a trickle charger on it , see if it helps , 65 could be a bit low , but 15 volts says it’s charging , i maybe wrong but was there a charging fault issue with the r8 , plus do you have any battery drains going on , turn car off no interior lights etc , disconnect the battery put a 12v brake bulb between battery negative lead and battery negative terminal it should light up but not be very bright , is the car driven often if it’s left for a while without being driven then it’s driven but not very far miles wise then battery won’t fully charge
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