fyi in case anyones battery is draining 'too' soon

[omodos]

Ok hello to all, thought I would share....was plagued by what seemed to be battery issues for a loooong time(in part was the battery), symptoms was a lazy start, that over the space of a week in some cases a bit longer got slower and i needed to hook up to the ctek or my other charger. IF not put on charge there was a no start situation.



Lazy start still persisted, did check for parasitic drain and was just borderline, so not the cause.


So this constant top up went of for a couple of years, pain in the posterior if you ask me.



Last month decided to go for a new battery, replaced it, again whilst better still was lazy.


I replaced the starter motor a week ago and it is starting up today exactly as fast and crisply as it was a week ago when I had it replaced , my driving mode slightly changed this week due to adverse weather, driving it a bit more so not sure this is the reason it has started so well a week on.



I will report back in another week after my usual low mileage driving mode, and hopefully conclude that the old oem starter lazy from day one was the reason my battery was being depleted so much after each start.


Only regret is not getting it swapped out earlier...