Liteboy
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Yesterday on the way to work my wife had a few odd things on the dash, the gear change up/down indicator seemed to throw a wobbler at one point telling her to change up when she was in top gear and the external temp sensor suddenly dropped to - 2 plus the car is running a bit rough.
When she got home I put a meter on the battery it was 12.7v with or without the engine running which seems low to me.
I put it on my ctek charger overnight and the battery went up to 13.9v and once off charge stabilised at 13.31v.
I reconnected everything and the battery stayed around 13.31v, started the car and it didn't rise or drop even with a load on from the lights, heater and heated window.
All the earth's look OK and the battery is a Yuasa 7000 series battery I put on in 2021.
I also connected up the laptop with multiecuscan to see if there were any errors logged but only had two errors from a while ago, one was the knock sensor and one was a DRL failure I hadn't cleared nothing else.
I am thinking alternator hoping it isn't as it looks a right pain in the.... to get to.
When she got home I put a meter on the battery it was 12.7v with or without the engine running which seems low to me.
I put it on my ctek charger overnight and the battery went up to 13.9v and once off charge stabilised at 13.31v.
I reconnected everything and the battery stayed around 13.31v, started the car and it didn't rise or drop even with a load on from the lights, heater and heated window.
All the earth's look OK and the battery is a Yuasa 7000 series battery I put on in 2021.
I also connected up the laptop with multiecuscan to see if there were any errors logged but only had two errors from a while ago, one was the knock sensor and one was a DRL failure I hadn't cleared nothing else.
I am thinking alternator hoping it isn't as it looks a right pain in the.... to get to.