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Old 05-19-2015, 04:38 PM
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Answer these questions please!

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Originally Posted by koolkat1973 View Post
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.
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?
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