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Just picked my car up from a bodyshop after somebody kindly ran into my rear end.
Driving home I notice the clock is 2 days out of date and assumed that they must have had the battery disconnected for some reason.
Pulls over to make a phone call. Stop Start kicks in and then a few seconds later I get the RED Battery Logo on the DIS and a message sayign that battery is not being charged.
Started the car up with no issue and drove a little further. Did it again when I was in traffic.
Got my multimeter out when I got home and stragenly I get 18.4 Volts when the car is running and 15.7 Volts when the car is off. I didnt expect to see such high values on 12 v battery but I am in no way electrically minded.
Whats the consensus, battery or Alternator goosed ? Alternator looks like a right pain to replace and battery is the original unit on a 2012 car with £ 82K on it.
Just want an idea before the car lets me down and strands me somewhere and before I spends hundreds on replacing perfectly good parts.
Driving home I notice the clock is 2 days out of date and assumed that they must have had the battery disconnected for some reason.
Pulls over to make a phone call. Stop Start kicks in and then a few seconds later I get the RED Battery Logo on the DIS and a message sayign that battery is not being charged.
Started the car up with no issue and drove a little further. Did it again when I was in traffic.
Got my multimeter out when I got home and stragenly I get 18.4 Volts when the car is running and 15.7 Volts when the car is off. I didnt expect to see such high values on 12 v battery but I am in no way electrically minded.
Whats the consensus, battery or Alternator goosed ? Alternator looks like a right pain to replace and battery is the original unit on a 2012 car with £ 82K on it.
Just want an idea before the car lets me down and strands me somewhere and before I spends hundreds on replacing perfectly good parts.