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Originally Posted by koolkat1973
I went ahead and bought another brand new battery today from BMW. Hopefully - the Autocraft battery was the culprit even though AAP technician told me battery was good.
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So now it will work fine for some months, the question is how will it be in 6 months?
Answer these questions ...
1. How many miles a week do you drive?
2. Are a lot of these miles at night?
3. Are the roads flat or nearly so where you live.
Reasoning for questions ...
I repeat the car ONLY recharges the battery when coasting and that happens only lot when going down hills.
Drivng a car at night means you have the lights on ... lights use more power!
If you drive few miles from home to wherever you use a lot of juice powering up and starting the car and when you don't drive far ... enough coast-charging doesn't occur.
Note the voltage reading on the battery when you first install a fully charged battery (write it down) ... not how it drops a little lower every week?