Can you please elaborate further on why you think this is a problem?Just to update, this vehicle hates battery maintainers, if they use these the combertidor does not charge the battery correctly until it feels like it, I use the CTEK MXS 5.0 model, but seeing what it does I will not use it again.
Strange, because that's what the dealers in the UK have plugged in under showroom cars so they can leave the DRL's on 24/7Just to update, this vehicle hates battery maintainers, if they use these the combertidor does not charge the battery correctly until it feels like it, I use the CTEK MXS 5.0 model, but seeing what it does I will not use it again. View attachment 11868
Great result - are you saying the car moves using battery only after a stop? Ours stops the engine when in hold but immediately starts when throttle touched even at 2mph crawling forwards.Just to update this thread. I put the battery on charge for a whole day and took it up past the conditioning phase to the battery maintaining stage. Started the engine and BM2 didn show any charge. Shut down and restarted the engine and got the same result. I decided to disconnect the earth lead and leave the car for a while and drink some tea.
Reconnected the earth lead, started the engine, this time BM2 gave a better result. The alternator was putting out 14.3 volts. Over all, a result, as now the MHEV is working as it should, for the first time in a month. Stopping at junctions is now a little eerie, with the engine stopping and the car sitting in silence until I release the brake, or, if hold has engaged, I touch the throttle and the car wafts down the road. A whole different experience from a 15 year old manual Freelander 2. It was a great car, never let me down on the road but as different from my Evoque as chalk is from cheese.
No, if slowing down and braking below about 17 mph the engine cuts unless I release the brake then the engine restarts. If I continue to brake at standstill the engine doesn’t start until I release the brakes. If I push on the brake hard enough to instigate hold I can release the brake pedal. The engine starts when I press the accelerator pedal.Great result - are you saying the car moves using battery only after a stop? Ours stops the engine when in hold but immediately starts when throttle touched even at 2mph crawling forwards.